Death of Somoza

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This first-hand account of the assassination of the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza contains unprecedented in-depth interviews with the members of the Argentine commando responsible for his death on September 17 1980.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For multiple reasons as the authors explain this book was not published until 1993 thirteen years after the event. Now 44 years later Nicaragua's history has come full circle - and this merits reflection if long-lasting peace and justice are to be obtained. The armed action of the Argentine commando in 1980 ended the life of a tyrant but in Nicaragua tyranny returned. Ten years of revolution was followed by 28 years of a very fragile democracy. Then in April 2018 an immense popular uprising against the new dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo met with brutal and bloody repression. Despite this the Nicaraguan people have opted for a civic and democratic path to change rather than violent overthrow as they did in the past.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This path is much longer and more arduous yet if we take a historical perspective on the quest for peace and justice it is perhaps the only way to break the vicious circle of dictatorships that has plagued Nicaragua.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book well-documented and at the same time humane is not an apology for terrorism or violence. It is intended rather as a chronicle from which to draw lessons.</span></p>