Nicaragua

The overthrow of the Somoza regime by the Sandinista guerrillas has had a profound impact on the rest of Latin America. While military regimes in countries like El Salvador and Guatemala have been shaken by the sequence of events in Nicaragua, revolutionary movements in countries as far away as Chile and Argentina have drawn new hope from the victory of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (or Sandinista Front). But just as important as the victory of the Sandinista Front is the direction that the Nicaraguan revolutionary process assumes in the post-Somoza era. As Tomas Borge, one of two founders of the Sandinista Front declared shortly after the victory: "The most difficult task is yet before us. The war is only beginning."This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

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• The Worker-Peasant Alliance in the First Year of the Nicaraguan Agrarian Reform

  Open Access•C D Deere, Peter Marchetti•Latin American Perspectives•1981

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