Volume 36, Number 13 · August 17, 1989
Dithering in Nicaragua
By James Chace
Condemned to Repetition
by Robert A. Pastor
Princeton University Press, 392 pp., $24.95
Somoza Falling
by Anthony Lake
Houghton Mifflin, 317 pp., $18.95
War and Peace in Central America: Reality and Illusion
by Frank McNeil
Scribner's, 310 pp., $19.95
Agony in the Garden: A Stranger in Central America
by Edward R.F. Sheehan
Houghton Mifflin, 362 pp., $19.95
On July 19, 1989, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Nicaraguan revolution which drove the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle from the country, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra spoke from a podium a few hundred yards from the square that was renamed the Plaza de la Revolución after it was destroyed by earthquake in 1972. The square remains a wasteland. Somoza was unwilling to rebuild the downtown district, and the Sandinistas have also failed to do so.
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