Geography 2020A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Banana Republic, Revolutionary Struggle, United States Marine Corps
19 Jan 2018
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Central america- the bloodiest recall nicaragua (part 1: 1912-(cid:1007)(cid:1007): us ma(cid:396)i(cid:374)es do(cid:373)i(cid:374)ate ni(cid:272)a(cid:396)agua, classi(cid:272) (cid:858)(cid:271)a(cid:374)a(cid:374)a (cid:396)epu(cid:271)li(cid:272)(cid:859, augusto cesar sandino check slides. Nicaragua part 2: a(cid:374)di(cid:374)o(cid:859)s aspi(cid:396)atio(cid:374)/ lega(cid:272)(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ued to ho(cid:448)e(cid:396), the(cid:396)e (cid:449)as (cid:374)o gue(cid:396)illa a(cid:396)(cid:373)(cid:455) i(cid:374) the 5(cid:1004)s a(cid:374)d. 60s but in the 70s the sandinistas create a guerilla style army (sandino vive)- check slides: anastasio somoza 1 (1937-56) luis somoza (1956-63) anastasio somoza 2 (1963-79) The somoza dictatorship (cid:858)(cid:455)ou (cid:374)a(cid:373)e it the(cid:455) o(cid:449)(cid:374) it(cid:859: very powerful + strong us support, key things that happened near the end of the last somoza reign us starts to pull back. But grip on power weakens: 1972: earthquake flattens managua approx. Foreign aid poured in after earthquake: somoza pockets international relief. Foreign power holding their noses at the relationship between us and somozas: 1978: pedro chamorro assassination (newspaper editor) 1979: bill stewart (us newspaper writer killed on camera) while reporting on the growing social unrest in nicaragua.
