Listen, compañero: Conversations with Central American revolutionary leaders, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua

A revolutionary upsurge is sweeping Central America. Here for the first time Central American Revolutionary leaders speak directly to a North American audience. Salvador Cayetano Carpio of El Salvador, Comandante Benedicto of Guatemala, and Jamie Wheelock of Nicaragua have all been at the center of their people's struggle against dictatorship and underdevelopment. * Carpio, often referred to as the Ho Chi Minh of Latin America, was a trade union leader in the 1930's and later founder and leader of the Popular Front of Liberation, member of the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMNLN), until his untimely death in 1983; * Benedicto, as a leader of the guerrilla nucleus set up by the Guerrilla Army of the Poor, member of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG), in the jungles of northern Guatemala; * Wheelock, as a commander in the revolutionary war against Somoza and current head of the Sandinista National Liberation Front's (FSLN) far-reaching agrarian reform. These personal testimonies in Listen, Companero offer rich insights into the origins and goals of the Central American revolution.