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DESCRIPTION:In this long-awaited book, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 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 
 1981 election of the Socialist Sandinistas that ousted Reagan darling and 
 vicious dictator Somoza.  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 testimony on battles waged much earlier. While her rich 
 political analysis of this history bears the mark of a trained historian, 
 her perspective is also that of an intrepid activist who spent months at a 
 time throughout the 1980s in the war-torn country, especially in the remote 
 Mosquitia region where the indigenous Miskitu people were viciously 
 assailed and nearly wiped out by CIA-trained contra mercenaries. This book 
 makes painfully clear the connections between what many US Americans only 
 remember vaguely as the Iran-Contra "affair" and current US aggression in 
 the Americas, the Middle East, and around the world.   Anyone interested in 
 Latin American history, or in better understanding the violent turmoil of 
 our world today should relish this chance to hear Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 
 speak.  \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/11/29/82193.php
SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz booklaunch
LOCATION:AK Press 674-A 23rd. St Oakland, CA   b/t MLK and San Pablo - near 19th St. 
 BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/11/29/82193.php
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