U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua

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As President Carter’s ambassador to Nicaragua from 1977–1979, Mauricio Solaún witnessed a vital moment in Central American history. In U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua, Solaún outlines the role of U.S. foreign policy all through the Carter administration and explains how this policy with respect to the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979 not only failed but helped impede the institutionalization of democracy there.
 
Late within the 1970s, the US took issue with the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza. Moral suasion, economic sanctions, and other peaceful instruments from Washington led to violent revolution in Nicaragua and bolstered a new dictatorial government. A U.S.-supported counterrevolution formed, and Solaún argues that the US attempts to at the present time to resolve who rules Nicaragua.
 
Solaún explores the mechanisms that kept Somoza’s poorly legitimized regime in power for decades, making it essentially the most enduring Latin American authoritarian regime of the twentieth century. Solaún argues that continual shifts in U.S. international policy have been made in accordance with previous policies that failed to provide U.S.- friendly international environments. His historical survey of these policy shifts provides a window at the working of U.S. diplomacy and lessons for future policy-making.

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