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With Blood On The Border: A Memoir Of The Contra War, Roxanne Dunbar-ortiz Presents The Third Volume In Her Critically-acclaimed Memoir. In This Long-awaited Book, She Vividly Recounts On-the-ground Memories Of The Contra War In Nicaragua, Chronicling The Us-sponsored Terror Inflicted On The People Of Nicaragua Following Their 1979 Election Of The Socialist Sandinistas That Ousted Reagan Darling And Vicious Dictator Somoza. The War's Opening Salvo Was The Bombing Of A Nicaraguan Plane In Mexico City By Us-backed Contras, The Plane Dunbar-ortiz Would Have Been On Were It Not For A Delay. This Disarming Closeness To The Fraught History Of The Us/nicaraguan Relationship Shapes Dunbar-ortiz's Narrative, Bringing Uncomfortably Present The Decade-long Dirty War That The Reagan Administration Pursued In Nicaragua Against Civilian And Soldier Alike.^ As With Her First Two Memoirs, In Blood On The Border, Dunbar-ortiz Seamlessly Connects The Dots Not Only Between The Personal And The Political, But Between Recent History And Our Present Moment. Unlike The Many Commentators Who View The September 11, 2001 Attacks As The Start Of The So-called War On Terror, Dunbar-ortiz Offers Firsthand Test

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Author

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939-

Publisher

South End ; [Compass Academic distributor

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780896087422

Category

history

Subjects

Gender Studies, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.82 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14