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More so than ever before, I realised while writing this chapter that over the previous fifteen or so years I had made an unconscious, but definite, effort to make Nicaragua and its revolution into something they were not. I wanted the revolution, at the time and in retrospect, to be a noble and infallible success; to be truly the good example so feared by Washington. When Nicaragua had problems I attributed those problems entirely to the enormous economic and military pressures emanating from the USA and did not see the inadequacies of Sandinista (FSLN — Frente Sandinista para la Liberación Nacional) rule. The truth was not always so simple and Jenny Pearce is right to note that ‘the revolution was not the romantic affair often portrayed by many sympathetic Europeans’ such as myself.1
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Pettiford, L. (1996). La Lucha Continua? Identity and the Nicaraguan Revolution. In: Krause, J., Renwick, N. (eds) Identities in International Relations. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25194-0_7
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