{"product_id":"blood-on-the-border-a-memoir-of-the-contra-war-9780806153841","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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor of the acclaimed memoirs Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years and Red Dirt: Growing up Okie, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a professor of Ethnic Studies at California State, Hayward. Dunbar-Ortiz has been a liberal, a radical revolutionary, a militant feminist, and through it all, an avid soldier for human liberation. She writes about making and living history.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50692891640082,"sku":"9780806153841","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_62392859-8934-4fac-8444-a4ea78d5deb7.jpg?v=1734137156","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blood-on-the-border-a-memoir-of-the-contra-war-9780806153841","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}