9780806153841-0806153849-Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War

Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War

ISBN-13: 9780806153841
ISBN-10: 0806153849
Edition: Revised
Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Paperback 312 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780806153841
ISBN-10: 0806153849
Edition: Revised
Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Paperback 312 pages

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Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War (ISBN-13: 9780806153841 and ISBN-10: 0806153849), written by authors Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, was published by University of Oklahoma Press in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Latin America (Historical, Political, Leaders & Notable People, Social Activists, Native American, Americas History, Military History, World History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Latin America books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully present in Blood on the Border, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz’s firsthand account of the decade-long dirty war pursued by the Contras and the United States against the people of Nicaragua.

With the 1981 bombing of a Nicaraguan plane in Mexico City—a plane Dunbar-Ortiz herself would have been on if not for a delay—the US-backed Contras (short for los contrarrevolucionarios) launched a major offensive against Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime, which the Reagan administration labeled as communist. While her rich political analysis of the US-Nicaraguan relationship bears the mark of a trained historian, Dunbar-Ortiz also writes from her perspective as an intrepid activist who spent months at a time throughout the 1980s in the war-torn country, especially in the remote northeastern region, where the Indigenous Miskitu people were relentlessly assailed and nearly wiped out by CIA-trained Contra mercenaries. She makes painfully clear the connections between what many US Americans today remember only vaguely as the Iran-Contra “affair” and ongoing US aggression in the Americas, the Middle East, and around the world—connections made even more explicit in a new afterword written for this edition.

A compelling, important, and sobering story on its own, Blood on the Border offers a deeply informed, closely observed, and heartfelt view of history in the making.
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