Book presentation - Mateo Jarquin
Event Start Date: April 05, 2024 4:30 PM
Event End Date: April 05, 2024 6:00 PM
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The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History
book presentation by Mateo Jarquín
Friday, April 5 | 4:30 pm
Grinter 376
Mateo Jarquín
Assistant Professor, History
Co-Director, Program in War, Diplomacy, & Society
Chapman University
with commentary by
Leslie Anderson
Professor, Political Science & Latin American Studies
University of Florida
The 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.
Mateo Jarquín recenters the revolution as a major episode in the history of Latin America, the international left, and the Cold War. Drawing on research in Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica, he recreates the perspective of Sandinista leaders in Managua and argues that their revolutionary project must be understood in international context. Because struggles over the Revolution unfolded transnationally, the Nicaraguan drama had lasting consequences for Latin American politics at a critical juncture. It also reverberated in Western Europe, among socialists worldwide, and beyond, illuminating global dynamics like the spread of democracy and the demise of a bipolar world dominated by two superpowers.
Jarquín offers a sweeping analysis of the last left-wing revolution of the twentieth century, an overview of inter-American affairs in the 1980s, and an incisive look at the making of the post–Cold War order.