Nicaragua: "We Fought For Our Land" Miskitu Insurgency And The Struggle For Autonomy On Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast (1981–1987)

Nicaragua: "We Fought For Our Land" Miskitu Insurgency And The Struggle For Autonomy On Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast (1981–1987)   Luciano Baracoo, 2011   This article re-examines the armed Miskitu insurgency conducted against the Sandinista revolutionary government on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast (1981–1987) and discloses the problematic relationship that developed between Miskitu fighters and other non-indigenous, CIA-backed, armed, counter-revolutionary groups, or Contras. Drawing on...

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