Nicaragua: The Land Of Sandino

This third edition on the history, politics and culture of Nicaragua has been updated to analyze the nature and impact of the US-orchestrated Contra war, and related programmes of economic and social destabilization in the late 1980s; the evolution and development of governmental institutions and policies; the 1990 election and the victory by the UNO; and the nature of the government of Violeta de Chamorro in the year following the Sandinistas' defeat.