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National Revolution and Indigenous Identity: The Conflict between Sandinists and Mískito Indians on Nicaragua´s Atlantic Coast

Publisher: IWGIA
Author: Klaudine Ohland & Robin Schneider
Number of pages: 302
ISSN number: 0105-4503
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Nicaragua
Region publication is about: Latin America, América Latina
Release year: 1983
Release Month | Day: apr-83

Tags: Human rights

Since July 1982 the situation on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast has rapidly deteriorated. What before merely seemed possible is today a certainty. Open battles have begun in the Puerto Cabezas area between the Sandinist army and armed units of several thousand men who have invaded from Honduras. Supported by the Honduran army and equipped with North Ameri­can arms, the opponents of the Sandinist Revolution aim to trigger off popular revolts among the indigenous population on the Atlantic Coast. Even if they have not yet achieved this, the few existing reports from the war-zone indicate that the counter-revolutionary troops are made up predominantly of Miskito, who have themselves been trained by Somoza's former National Guards and indigenous deserters from the Sandinist army.

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