2nd Edition
Not Condemned To Repetition The United States And Nicaragua
By Robert Pastor
Copyright 2002
376 Pages
by
Routledge
380 Pages
by
Routledge
380 Pages
by
Routledge
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Through the fall of Anastasio Somoza, the rise of the Sandinistas, and the contra war, the United States and Nicaragua seemed destined to repeat the mistakes made by the U.S. and Cuba forty years before. The 1990 election in Nicaragua broke the pattern. Robert Pastor was a major US policymaker in the critical period leading up to and following the Sandinista Revolution of 1979. A decade later... Read more
Preface , Setting the Stage , Declining Dictators, Rising Revolutions , A Fractured History , Roads to Revolution , The Succession Crisis, 1977–1979 , Human Rights and Nicaraguan Wrongs , To Mediate or Not to Mediate: The Policy Question , The (First) Mediation , Marching to Different Drummers , The Reluctant Arbiter , Denouement , Relating to the Revolution , Carter: Mutual Respect and Suspicion , Carter: Mutual Temptations , Reagan: Mutual Resentment , Reagan: Mutual Obesssions , The Democratic Transition and Nicaragua's Lessons , The Central American Initiative , The Second Mediation: Defining the Rules for a Free Election , The Transfer , Lessons from Three Challenges: Succession, Revolution, and Democracy
Biography
Robert Pastor
