Adios Muchachos

by Ramirez, Sergio; Skar, Stacey Alba D.

• ISBN13: 9780822350873
• ISBN10: 0822350874
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-21
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Adi s Muchachosis a candid insider’s account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ram rez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, Ram rez served as vice-president under Daniel Ortega from 1985 until 1990, when the FSLN lost power in a national election. Disillusioned by his former comrades’ increasing intolerance of dissent and resistance to democratization, Ram rez defected from the Sandinistas in 1995 and founded the Sandinista Renovation Movement. In Adi s Muchachos, he describes the utopian aspirations for liberation and reform that motivated the Sandinista revolution against the Somoza regime, as well as the triumphs and shortcomings of the movement’s leadership as it struggled to turn an insurrection into a government, reconstruct a country beset by poverty and internal conflict, and defend the revolution against the Contras, an armed counterinsurgency supported by the United States. Adi s Muchachoswas first published in 1999. Based on a later edition, this translation includes Ram rez’s thoughts on more recent developments, including the re-election of Daniel Ortega as president in 2006.

Author Biography

Sergio Ramrez is an internationally acclaimed writer, whose many books have been translated into more than fifteen languages. He lives in Managua, Nicaragua.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Spanish Edition Published in 2007 the Shadow of the Caudillo	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Partial Confession	p. 5
Saintly Living	p. 17
The Age of Innocence	p. 35
The Swan over the Burning Coals	p. 49
The Age of Malice	p. 65
Monkey on a Leash	p. 81
Manifest Destiny	p. 93
The Likely Number Thirteen	p. 113
Heaven on Earth	p. 127
The Year of the Pig	p. 143
Rivers of Milk and Honey	p. 159
The Palace at Last!	p. 173
Saturn's Jaws	p. 191
Epilogue	p. 207
Chronology, 1979-1990	p. 211
Glossary	p. 223
Index	p. 229
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