Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (632 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806153849 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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“This is an impressive, astounding, and truthful historical document. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz tells a story that is moving, profoundly human, and enlightening.” —Gioconda Belli, author of The Country under My Skin
With the 1981 bombing of a Nicaraguan plane in Mexico City—a plane Dunbar-Ortiz herself would have been on if not for a delay—the US-backed Contras (short for los contrarrevolucionarios) launched a major offensive against Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime, which the Reagan administration labeled as communist. Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully present in Blood on the Border, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. She makes painfully clear the connections between what many US Americans today remember only vaguely as the Iran-Contra “affair” and ongoing US aggression in the Americas, the Middle East, and around the world—connections made even more explicit in a new afterword written for this edition. A compelling, important, and sobering story on its own, Blood on the Border offers a deeply informed, closely observed, and heartfelt view of history in the making.. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz’s firsthand account of the decade-long dirty war pursued by the Contras and the United States against the people of Nicaragua. While her rich political analysis of the US-Nicaraguan relationship be
"Radical Okie does it again!" according to Davis D. Joyce. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has a remarkable ability to tell her personal story in a broader historical context--the mark, I suppose, of a good memoir. This is her third such volume. The first, RED DIRT: GROWING UP OKIE, is still my favorite, but that may just be in part because I have the experience of trying to be a radical in Oklahoma. That book traces her life from poor, part Native American roots to 60s radicalism (including wonderful stories about her Wo. R. Jacobs said Contra-indications. A Review of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Blood on the BorderContraindicationsBy RON JACOBSTo many of us in the United States, the US contra war against the Nicaraguan government in the 1980s seems like very long ago. Since the CIA-manufactured defeat of the revolutionary government in Managua--a defeat that included mercenary war, media manipulations, CIA and Special Forces covert ops, drug-running and arms smuggling by people paid by the US government, and a. NS said A Little Loose with the Facts. Ward Churchill "signed on" to an attempt to discredit Dunbar Ortiz on the basis of her ethnicity? This seems a bit peculiar, given that he's on record as having rather staunchly defended her against attacks on those very grounds by, among others, the Indian Law Resource Center's Steven Tullburg, Wicazo Review's Elizabeth Cook-Lynne, Indian Country Today's Tim Giago, and the inimitable Vernon Bellecourt of "National AIM."I've gone through everything I ca