From the back cover: Augusto Sandino battle the United States Marines for six years and has for a half-century served as a model and martyr for Latin Americans struggling against what they see as U.S. imperialism. The Sandino Affair remains the best account of the origins of a movement that continues to inflame the headlines and that has served as a beacon for Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, as well as the leaders of the current Sandinist government in Nicaragua. (published in 1985)

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