Nicaraguan Revolution: The Sandinistas, The Contras, & The CIA
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
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🗓️ 14 June 2019
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Alex Aviña is a professor of Latin American history in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. His book, "Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside", was awarded the Maria Elena Martínez Book Prize in Mexican History for 2015 by the Conference on Latin American History.
Alex joins Breht to discuss the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979, the Somoza Dictatorship, the Sandinistas, the CIA and the Reagan Administration, US imperialism in Central America, the 1954 Guatemalan coup, Marxism-Leninism, National Liberation, Indigenous resistance on both sides of the revolution, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | More than 200 young Nicaraguan's died fighting the National Guard. |
| 0:05.2 | One of them was this woman's son, Julio. |
| 0:08.0 | Her name is LaPita, and she carried her son's tortured body back from the front line, |
| 0:13.2 | and buried it in this, her small dirt garden. |
| 0:22.8 | Her other son Manuel, simply, disappeared. |
| 0:27.6 | My personal opinion about the aggression is that these people have no feelings whatsoever. |
| 0:41.2 | Because they lived exactly as they pleased for 50 years. |
| 0:51.2 | We the poor, and we really are poor. |
| 0:53.6 | We struggled to earn our daily bread, with the pittance we were paid. |
| 1:00.6 | Yes, I have an opinion about this aggression. Let President Reagan spare a thought that he has children. |
| 1:08.0 | Let him think that he is supporting genocide. They were murderers here. |
| 1:13.0 | They had no pity for the young people. It was a crime in Nicaragua to be young. |
| 1:23.2 | Those brutes, we don't want them in Nicaragua. They carry on killing young men on the borders. |
| 1:31.2 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 1:34.4 | On today's episode we have Professor Alex Oveema, who is going to be talking about the |
| 1:38.0 | San D'Amista Revolution, the Reagan administration, the CIA, and all issues surrounding that topic. |
| 1:44.4 | Before we get into the episode, we have a brand new website, and the idea behind the website is |
| 1:49.2 | it's very simple, easy to navigate, and it really combines everything, all that one convenience spot. |
| 1:55.2 | So that is RevolutionaryLeftRadio.com. |
| 1:58.8 | I also wanted to say really quickly before we get into this episode, that my comrades over at the |
| 2:03.1 | Indigenous Anarchist Federation gave me a really interesting concrete step that I can take to |
| 2:08.0 | try to make Revolutionary Left Radio a little more conscious about Indigenous issues and help educate |
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