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The Status of the Sandinista Revolutionary Project

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On 25 April 1990, Violeta Chamorro assumed the presidency of Nicaragua, two months after her National Opposition Union (UNO) coalition scored a decisive electoral victory ending 11 years of rule by the revolutionary Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). The backers of President Chamorro, both inside and outside Nicaragua, expected her administration to move quickly to dismantle the revolutionary projects of the Sandinistas. This chapter will give an assessment of Nicaraguan society based on the questions: what gains of the Sandinista revolution have been overturned by the Chamorro administration and what gains have been protected by the Sandinistas and their supporters. Additionally, it will analyse the current relationship of political forces within Nicaragua with an eye towards the prospects for social change in the coming years.1

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  1. Gary Prevost
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Political Science, St John’s University, Minnesota, USA

    Gary Prevost (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Government and International Affairs, USA

    Harry E. Vanden (Professor, Director) (Professor, Director)

  3. Caribbean and Latin American Studies Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA

    Harry E. Vanden (Professor, Director) (Professor, Director)

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Prevost, G. (1997). The Status of the Sandinista Revolutionary Project. In: Prevost, G., Vanden, H.E. (eds) The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25292-3_2

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