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To Lead As Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979

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This book is a carefully argued study of peasants and labor all over the Somoza regime, specializing in popular movements within the economically strategic department of Chinandega in western Nicaragua. Jeffrey Gould traces the evolution of group consciousness among peasants and workers as they moved away from extreme dependency at the patron to reach an autonomous social and political ideology. In doing so, he makes necessary contributions to peasant studies and theories of revolution, in addition to our understanding of Nicaraguan history.

According to Gould, when Anastasio Somoza first came to power in 1936, workers and peasants took the Somocista reform program seriously. Their initial acceptance of Somocismo and its early promises of labor rights and later ones of land redistribution accounts for one of the bizarre features of the pre-Sandinista political landscape: the wide gulf separating popular movements and middle-class opposition to the federal government. Only the alliance of the Frente Sandinista (FSLN) and the peasant movement would knock down the wall of silence between the two forces.

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