Book Review: Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle

Submitted by fyl on 12 January, 2005 - 09:44.
Book Review: Nicaragua: Living in the Shadow of the Eagle

This book, now in its forth edition, is an excellent source of information on Nicaragua from the beginning to the Bolaños administration. Moderate-sized (238 pages) with some photos but mostly heavily annotated text. There is also twenty pages of annotated sources in English which are virtually all books.

The subtitle for previous editions was "The Land of Sandino". The author explains his choice of changing it to "Living in the Shadow of the Eagle" in the preface. The following is from that preface:

Nicaragua shares with most Latin American countries a centuries-old experience of U.S. intervention and interference. But few countries have been so extensively and repeatedly intervened in as Nicaragua.

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Buy this Book.

Submitted by Miskito Alan on 30 May, 2005 - 08:18.

This book is available now for purchase at Wal-Mart online for U$24.

Anti-Walmart rant

Submitted by fyl on 30 May, 2005 - 08:34.

Why would someone want to buy anything at WalMart? Ok, how could someone in good conscience do that?

This book is available at lots of places--last time I looked, for example, at Powell's. I previously asked someone not to post a bunch of Amazon links. But, neither of these places are inherently bad. WalMart is.

WalMart is the most suggesful example of combining exploitation of third-world labor with a plan that destroys local economies. I watched Aberdeen, Washington go from a poor town (post logging boom) with a downtown filled with struggling local businesses into a financial disaster after a WalMart was built just outside town--located to extract money from Aberdeen but avoid having to pay taxes in Aberdeen.

Ok, end of rant.

Thats what I was saying:

Submitted by Pedophile-hater on 30 May, 2005 - 09:04.

This was an expensive homework, I'll wait till it plummet in to a yard sale, or one of our rich forum members, tell the story.