To Lead As Equals
Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979
Jeffrey L. Gould
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 01/2014
Pages: 392
Subject: History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469616070
DESCRIPTION
According to Gould, when Anastasio Somoza first came to power in 1936, workers and peasants took the Somocista reform program seriously. Their initial acceptance of Somocismo and its early promises of labor rights and later ones of land redistribution accounts for one of the most peculiar features of the pre-Sandinista political landscape: the wide gulf separating popular movements and middle-class opposition to the government. Only the alliance of the Frente Sandinista (FSLN) and the peasant movement would knock down the wall of silence between the two forces.