The Death of Ben Linder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Death of Ben Linder write by Joan Kruckewitt. This book was released on 2011-01-04. The Death of Ben Linder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story. In the summer of 1983, a 23-year-old American named Ben Linder arrived in Managua with a unicycle and a newly earned degree in engineering. In 1986, Linder moved from Managua to El Cuá, a village in the Nicaraguan war zone, where he helped form a team to build a hydroplant to bring electricity to the town. He was ambushed and killed by the Contras the following year while surveying a stream for a possible hydroplant. In 1993, Kruckewitt traveled to the Nicaraguan mountains to investigate Linder's death. In July 1995. she finally located and interviewed one of the men who killed Ben Linder, a story that became the basis for a New Yorker feature on Linder's death. Linder's story is a portrait of one idealist who died for his beliefs, as well as a picture of a failed foreign policy, vividly exposing the true dimensions of a war that forever marked the lives of both Nicaraguans and Americans.
United States Volunteers in Nicaragua and the Death of Benjamin Linder
United States Volunteers in Nicaragua and the Death of Benjamin Linder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook United States Volunteers in Nicaragua and the Death of Benjamin Linder write by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs. This book was released on 1987. United States Volunteers in Nicaragua and the Death of Benjamin Linder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hideous Gnosis
Hideous Gnosis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hideous Gnosis write by Nicola Masciandaro. This book was released on 2010. Hideous Gnosis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of essays and documents presented at "Hideous Gnosis," a symposium on black metal theory held in Brooklyn, December 2009.
Sandinista
Sandinista - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sandinista write by Matilde Zimmermann. This book was released on 2001-01-12. Sandinista available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A must-read for anyone interested in Nicaragua—or in the overall issue of social change.”—Margaret Randall, author of SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS and SANDINO'S DAUGHTERS REVISITED Sandinista is the first English-language biography of Carlos Fonseca Amador, the legendary leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua (the FSLN) and the most important and influential figure of the post–1959 revolutionary generation in Latin America. Fonseca, killed in battle in 1976, was the undisputed intellectual and strategic leader of the FSLN. In a groundbreaking and fast-paced narrative that draws on a rich archive of previously unpublished Fonseca writings, Matilde Zimmermann sheds new light on central themes in his ideology as well as on internal disputes, ideological shifts, and personalities of the FSLN. The first researcher ever to be allowed access to Fonseca’s unpublished writings (collected by the Institute for the Study of Sandinism in the early 1980s and now in the hands of the Nicaraguan Army), Zimmermann also obtained personal interviews with Fonseca’s friends, family members, fellow combatants, and political enemies. Unlike previous scholars, Zimmermann sees the Cuban revolution as the crucial turning point in Fonseca’s political evolution. Furthermore, while others have argued that he rejected Marxism in favor of a more pragmatic nationalism, Zimmermann shows how Fonseca’s political writings remained committed to both socialist revolution and national liberation from U.S. imperialism and followed the ideas of both Che Guevara and the earlier Nicaraguan leader Augusto César Sandino. She further argues that his philosophy embracing the experiences of the nation’s workers and peasants was central to the FSLN’s initial platform and charismatic appeal.
Bernardo and the Virgin
Bernardo and the Virgin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bernardo and the Virgin write by Silvio Sirias. This book was released on 2007-04-27. Bernardo and the Virgin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The year is 1980, and the Sandinistas are newly in power in Nicaragua. Bernardo Martínez, a modest, unassuming tailor in the town of Cuapa, witnesses an extraordinary thing: an otherworldly glow appears around the statue of the Virgin Mary in the church, and soon the Holy Virgin appears. Though a work of fiction, Bernardo and the Virgin is based on the real-life experiences of Bernardo Martínez. Silvio Sirias’s sweeping novel tells many stories, weaving together the true account of this humble, devout man with the moving and often humorous fictional tales of the people whom he influenced and inspired. It is also a stormy epic of Nicaragua through the long Somoza years and the Sandinista revolution.
