{"product_id":"b01iodxuq0","title":"Blood on the Border","description":"\u003cp\u003eHuman rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully present in  Blood on the Border , the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political,  Blood on the Border  is Dunbar-Ortiz’s firsthand account of the decade-long dirty war pursued by the Contras and the United States against the people of Nicaragua.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith the 1981 bombing of a Nicaraguan plane in Mexico City—a plane Dunbar-Ortiz herself would have been on if not for a delay—the US-backed Contras (short for  los contrarrevolucionarios ) launched a major offensive against Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime, which the Reagan administration labeled as communist. While her rich political analysis of the US-Nicaraguan relationship bears the mark of a trained historian, Dunbar-Ortiz also writes from her perspective as an intrepid activist who spent months at a time throughout the 1980s in the war-torn country, especially in the remote northeastern region, where the Indigenous Miskitu people were relentlessly assailed and nearly wiped out by CIA-trained Contra mercenaries. She makes painfully clear the connections between what many US Americans today remember only vaguely as the Iran-Contra “affair” and ongoing US aggression in the Americas, the Middle East, and around the world—connections made even more explicit in a new afterword written for this edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA compelling, important, and sobering story on its own,  Blood on the Border  offers a deeply informed, closely observed, and heartfelt view of history in the making.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67934574706724,"sku":"YSL32989","price":11.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/2614\/7620\/files\/51VlwNRf1CL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793248363","url":"https:\/\/booktavero.com\/products\/b01iodxuq0","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}