{"product_id":"9780806156439","title":"Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War","description":"\u003cbr\u003e Human 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 \u003ci\u003eBlood on the Border\u003c\/i\u003e, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, \u003ci\u003eBlood on the Border\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With 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 \u003ci\u003elos contrarrevolucionarios\u003c\/i\u003e) 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A compelling, important, and sobering story on its own, \u003ci\u003eBlood on the Border\u003c\/i\u003e offers a deeply informed, closely observed, and heartfelt view of history in the making.","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068864708848,"sku":"9780806156439","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780806156439_p0.jpg?v=1763729577","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780806156439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}