Nicaraguan Biographies

Nicaraguan Biographies: A Resource Book  (1988)  United States Department of State • Office of Public Affairs

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Capsule biographies of Nicaraguans. Published in early 1988. Triple slashes (///) denote known gaps in the OCR text, triple Spanish question marks (¿¿¿) denote possible gaps. Page 82 missing. Photographs and charts currently unavailable. Original text employed a three-column layout, and other formatting lost in OCR (such as paragraph breaks and italics) needs to be proofed.

Nicaraguan Biographies:

A Resource Book

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CONTENTS	Page
Introduction, Methodology, and Summary	1
The Sandinista Regime	12
Heroes	12
Inner Circle	15
Cadre	22
Friends	33
The Nicaraguan Resistance	35
Heroes	35
Leaders	38
Fighters	44
Activists	58
The Society	65
Human Rights	65
Religion and Culture	71
Business and Labor	76
Politics	80
History	85
Appendices
Resistance Military Command Structure	88
Glossary	92
Name Index	96
Maps
Nicaragua: Departments and Major Cities	Inside Cover
Sandinista Military Regions and Facilities	27
Route 5 from Matagalpa to Siuna:    Military Installations and Agricultural Centers	30
Resistance Activities and    Forced Removal of Population by Regime	49
Charts
Totalitarian Controls	17
Resistance Organization	41
Resistance Military Organization	45
Background of Senior Resistance Leaders	91
Cover photo: Resistance fighters in northern Nicaragua, July 1985. (© James Nachtwey/Magnum Press)

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).