Avail Yourself With The Contras: A Reporter In The Wilds Of Nicaragua Planned By Christopher Dickey Displayed As Copy

writing from a fascinating time and place in history Awesome book Published inthis was

the first book about the Nicaragua Contra war to reach a wide readership It starts off a bit like a war novel and contains too many generalisations but is generally a sound piece of work Much of the narrative centers around former Guardia Nacional sergeant Pedro Ortiz Centeno Suicida and his girlfriend Sonia Zapata Reyes La Negra who for a time were able to establish themselves as leading figures in the anti Sandinista movement before falling out of favour with the Contra leadership and meeting with seperate violent ends Dickey accompanies a patrol of Suicida's forces on a mission into Nicaragua witnessing their interaction with the Nicaraguan population and barely manages to return to Honduras with the Sandinista Army in pursuit It was nice to find this book in hardcover and perfect condition I read this book when it was first published in paperback I still have the beat up original and some time later spent several years on the ground in Nicaragua A landmark book that foreshadows the roots of the present turmoil in Central America now Very readable On the seventeenth of Julythe dictator Anastasio Somoza left Nicaragua after forty five years Finally the family that had ruled and owned the country was gone It took its money which was much of the money the country had The dictator left The generals left The colonels They fled by helicopter and airplane by car and on foot By the nineteenth they were almost all of them gone But the soldiers remained And in San Juan del Sur on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua the rebel Commander Zero Eden Pastora was facing the best of the dictator's remaining soldiers Bravo Montenegro the Rattlesnakes the Wild Geese the Black and White Eventually the guardias fled too some of them including a tough murderous sergeant from the Rattlesnakes called Suicida by his men making their way to El Salvador from where as the Contras they waged sporadic war against the Nicaraguan leftist forces Christopher Dickey was the first American newspaperman to go into the mountains of Nicaragua with the Contras and come out alive and his account of the secret war that is being waged against the Sandinista government reads like the best fiction Yet it is as factual as tomorrow's headlinesOn the seventeenth of July,, the dictator Anastasio Somoza left Nicaragua after fortyfive years.
Finally, the family that had ruled and owned the country was gone, It took its money, which was much of the money the country had, The dictator left. The generals left. The colonels. They fled by helicopter and airplane, by car and on foot, By the nineteenth they were, almost all of them, gone, But the soldiers remained. And in San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, the rebel Commander Zero, Eden Pastora, was facing the best of the dictator's remaining soldiers: Bravo, Montenegro, "the Rattlesnakes," "the Wild Geese," "the Black and White.
" Eventually the guardias fled too some of them, including a tough, murderous sergeant from "the Rattlesnakes" called Suicida by his men, making their way to El Salvador, from where, as the Contras, they waged sporadic war against the Nicaraguan leftist forces.
Christopher Dickey was the first American newspaperman to go into the mountains of Nicaragua with the Contras and come out alive, and his account of the "secret" war that is being waged against the Sandinista government reads like the best fiction.
Yet it is as factual as tomorrow's headlines, On the seventeenth of July,, the dictator Anastasio Somoza left Nicaragua after fortyfive years, Finally, the family that had ruled and owned the country was gone, It took its money, which was much of the money the country had, The dictator left. The generals left. The colonels. They fled by helicopter and airplane, by car and on foot, By the nineteenth they were, almost all of them, gone, But the soldiers remained. And in San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, the rebel Commander Zero, Eden Pastora, was facing the best of the dictator's remaining soldiers: Bravo, Montenegro, "the Rattlesnakes," "the Wild Geese," "the Black and White.
" Eventually the guardias fled too some of them, including a tough, murderous sergeant from "the Rattlesnakes" called Suicida by his men, making their way to El Salvador, from where, as the Contras, they waged sporadic war against the Nicaraguan leftist forces.
Christopher Dickey was the first American newspaperman to go into the mountains of Nicaragua with the Contras and come out alive, and his account of the "secret" war that is being waged against the Sandinista government reads like the best fiction.
Yet it is as factual as tomorrow's headlines, .