Working with Leicester’s twin city of Masaya in Nicaragua
and raising awareness of global issues
and raising awareness of global issues
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El Repliegue - John Perry
June 27, 2011
One of the more unusual events in the long history of popular uprisings against despotic regimes took place in Nicaragua on the night of 27 June 1979. The grip of the Somoza dynasty, which had ruled the country for more than 40 years, was slipping. The Sandinistas had advanced from their rural strongholds into the towns, and by early June they controlled the working-class barrios in the east of the capital....
Read all of John Perry's blog post at: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/06/27/john-perry/el-repliegue/
Claire Plumb
Development Worker - Leicester Masaya Link Group