Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest, and Coalition Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua: by Claudia Rueda, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2019, 291 pp., $45.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-14-7731-930-7.
Still, at key moments during the Somoza dictatorship, Nicaraguan students - women students, in particular - managed to hold unwieldy and at times contradictory coalitions together, channeling widespread reverence for students into organized support for political change across class lines. By virtue...
| Published in: | Journal of Iberian & Latin American Research Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 137 - 141 |
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