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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Mateo JarquÃn, "The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History" (UNC Press, 2024)
Description: Podcast: New Books in Diplomatic HistoryEpisode: Mateo JarquÃn, "The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History" (UNC Press, 2024)Pub date: 2024-05-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s. But as soon as the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990 and the Iran Contra affair ceased to make headlines, it became, in Washington at least, a thing of the past. In...