What the Sandinistas Won in Nicaragua
Forty-two years ago today, Sandinista National Liberation Front forces captured Managua and put an end to the Somoza dictatorship. It was a triumph that changed the course of Latin American history.
Jeffrey L. Gould is Distinguished Professor and Rudy Professor of History at Indiana University and the author of several books, including most recently Solidarity Under Siege: The Salvadoran Labor Movement, 1970-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Entre el Bosque y los Arboles: Utopías Menores en El Salvador, Nicaragua, y Uruguay (Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara, 2020).
Forty-two years ago today, Sandinista National Liberation Front forces captured Managua and put an end to the Somoza dictatorship. It was a triumph that changed the course of Latin American history.
The Daniel Ortega of today is not the Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista Revolution.