Nicaragua: two years of revolution

Reprinted in Nicaráuac (Vol. I, no. 2, 1980).

Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, 'President Ronald Reagan: the Republican platform on Central America' (London, mimeo, n.d.).

Sources for the pre-revolutionary history of Nicaragua include: Adolfo Gilly, La Nueva Nicaragua: anti-imperialismo y lucha de classes (Mexico, 1980); Harald Jung, 'Behind the Nicaraguan revolution', New Left Review (No. 17, 1979); Latin American Bureau, Nicaragua: dictatorship and revolution (London, 1979); North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) 'Nicaragua' (Vol. X, no. 2, 1976) and 'Crisis in Nicaragua' (Vol XII, no. 2, 1978); Jaime Wheelock, Imperialismo y Dictadura (Mexico, 1975).

For an analysis of the contemporary rural class composition and definition of classification of peasantry, see Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agricola (FIDA), Informe de la Mision Especial de Programación: Nicaragua (Rome, 1980), p. 28.

Commander Jaime Wheelock, Speech to the ATC (Managua, 2 February 1980).

Commander Humberto Ortega, Interview with Marta Harnecker in Granma International Press (Havana, 27 January 1980).

Commander Dora Maria Telléz, quoted in Pilar Arias, Nicaragua: Revolución (Mexico, 1980), p. 16.

Interviews with senior members of the government and FSLN.

José Luis Balcarcel , 'El Sandinismo: ideologia de la revolución Nicaragüense' in Nicaráuac, op. cit., p. 118.

Unless otherwise stated figures in this and the following section are taken from: Comision Economica para America Latina (CEPAL), Nicaragua (Mexico, August 1979) and Nicaragua (Mexico, 6 June 1980); FIDA, op. cit.; Ministerio de Planificación (MIPLAN) Programa de Reactivación Económica (Managua, 1980) and Programa Económica (Managua, 1981).

Speech to First International Solidarity Conference with Nicaragua (Managua, 28 January 1981).

Hermione Harris, 'Agrarian reform', in a forthcoming collection on Nicaragua, to be published by Christian Aid et al.

For the definition of classifications used here see FIDA, op. cit., p. 85.

Carlos Nuñez , El Papel de la Organización de Masa en el Proceso Revolucionario ( Managua, 1980) p. 20-21.

Collectif Femmes Nicaragua, Femmes Nicaragua (Paris, n.d.), p. 24.

Juventud Sandinista, El Brigadista (14 December 1980).

Commander Humberto Ortega, Public Speech (24 August 1981).

Quoted in Patria Libre (No. 3, Managua, March 1980), p. 6.

Alicia Sanchez , 'Student army shows the people the write way forward', Guardian (London, 3 September 1980).

Gloria Carrión , Interview in Women in Nicaragua (Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, London, 1980), p. 35.

Gloria Carrión , Speech at Closing Ceremony of Women's Week (AMNLAE, Managua, mimeo, 9 March 1980).

Gioconda Belli , 'Hacia Nuevas Relaciones Hombre-Mujer en Nuestra Revolución', Nuevo Diario (Managua, 16 September 1980).

Interview, Tercer Cine (Managua, 1980).

Quoted in NACLA, Nicaragua's Revolution (Vol. XIV, no. 3, 1980), p. 14.