In this new book, Mateo Jarquín explores the rise and fall of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution (1979-1990). Whereas most scholars recall the Sandinistas from U.S. debates over the Reagan administration’s policies in Central America, Jarquín recenters the Nicaraguan Revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin America, the international left, and the Cold War. Drawing on research in Nicaragua and several other Latin American countries, he recreates the perspective of Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) leaders in Managua and shows how their ideology, policies, and war with U.S.-backed Contras were all shaped by transnational struggles over the revolution. In his presentation, Jarquín will discuss how the Nicaraguan Revolution – like the Mexican and Cuban revolutions before it – helped set the agenda for Latin American politics at a critical juncture.
Speaker: Mateo Jarquín, Assistant Professor of History, Chapman University.
Moderated by Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University.
Mateo Jarquín is Assistant Professor of History at Chapman University and Co-Director of Chapman's MA Program in War, Diplomacy, and Society. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American History from Harvard University.
Kirsten Weld is Professor of Latin American history at Harvard University and the author of Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala.
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