De Sandino a los contras. Formas y prácticas de la guerra en Nicaragua

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ID5000870
AuthorsGilles Bataillon (0000-0002-2244-3297, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, corresponding author)
Year2016
Issue66
Pages9-37
Publication date2016-07-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Trace (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0185-6286 • E-ISSN: 2007-2392
PublisherTrace (Travaux et Recherches dans les Ameriques du Centre) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.22134/trace.66.2014.25
OpenAlexW980914693
LanguageES
Citations received2
References cited11

How are we to interpret the civil wars -Somoza vs Sandinsitas: Sandnistas vs contras- which have struck Nicaragua from 1978 to 1987? While most analyses put the stress on internal socio-political "deaddlocks" and the part played by foreign interventions, the aim here is to reinstate these two wars in Nicaragua "long term" cycle of violence enables to understand how violence could become, throught the 20th century, a legitimate and codified way of action and how it made it possible for new socio-political actors to emergeand to gain legitimate access to economic resources. The article then moves on to describe how these actors as well as the "political culture" of this series of war episodes was internally structured. Finally, the article looks into the changes which have taken place since the end of the contras/ sandinistas confrontation and during Violeta Barrios de Chamorro's mandate

Art · Humanities · Political science · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Latin American Urban Studies · Legal and Labor Studies

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