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‘Resistance is continual in Nicaragua’
Roger McKenzie talks to US writer DAN KOVALIK about why the people of Nicaragua need our support in their battle to determine their own future
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DAN KOVALIK first became aware of a place called Nicaragua in the autumn of 1979.
Two new students joined the school he attended as an 11-year-old at Milford, Ohio, in the United States. The students, Juan and Carlos, were both from Nicaragua and, it turns out, they were the sons of the former dictator of the country, Anastasio Somoza who had just been ousted by the popular Sandinista revolution.
Kovalik doesn’t pretend that this sparked any real awareness or sudden interest in revolutionary politics but it did ignite a curiosity about Nicaragua and the region as well as the role of the US.
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