Nicaragua: The 40-Year Revolution

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Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

4 жыл бұрын

In 1979 a group of young rebels, calling themselves the Sandinista National Liberation Front, overthrew a brutal dictatorship in Nicaragua. 40 years later, Nicaraguans are again living under an oppressive authoritarian regime. The current leader? Sandinista Daniel Ortega.
In the Spring of 2019, the Watson Institute held an unprecedented conference exploring the history and legacy of this unfinished revolution. Out of that conference came this short film, produced by The Watson Institute and Redfitz Films, telling the story of the Sandinista Revolution from the people who lived it.
For more information about the conference this film was based on, including recorded lectures and a 4-part podcast series featuring many of the voices in this film, visit [watson.brown.edu/nicaragua].

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@anthonysanderstorrez8153 3 жыл бұрын

Viva Nicaragua libre

@ecalder28612 11 ай бұрын

Hoy Nicaragua no es libre.

@galo15551 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah this video is lots of half truths and ignores huge factors of US pressure to fuel right wing violence. Reading on the movement rn and most the so called leaders of the revolution recorded here sold out the revolution in coalition with capitalists while the people wanted to continue fighting for true libertation. Tomas Borge being a prime example.

@StephenZ827 2 жыл бұрын

Yes but Brown U got their hit piece on Reagan and Trump...as if that was when it all started. Funny how they leave out Hillary's phone call . She was running against Trump and her " let the communist's have it" brought about the tens of thousands from all across Central America to flee towards the land of opportunity. Democrats dropped the ball in Central America, promised support then bailed out when Reagan was elected. Then blamed Reagan, sound familiar, like that little country called Afghanistan.

@jacqueline5424 2 жыл бұрын

@@StephenZ827 100 percent truth

@commiehunter733 2 жыл бұрын

Bullsh1t you liar! The Sandinistas should've been ALL SLAUGHTERED. My relatives escaped as part of the crooked government and have since renounced your sick Marxists ideology. My cousin was the Danish Embassador at the time.

@Ricardo_Belmonte 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I was thinking the same exact thing. Seems like rewriting history from western point of view.

@danielcardona2714 Жыл бұрын

Man you tankies will do anything but admit that Communism fails because it is simply an unsustainable economy

@johnnyjimenea3613 2 жыл бұрын

good

@armandjayne905 3 жыл бұрын

Even Brown University is negligent of western terrorism and its effects on the rest of the world today. This video continues to perpetuate western ideologies surrounding foreign affairs and really doesn't deliver in terms of historical relevance. Completely neglects the Reagan-era US-sponsored terrorism that decimated Nicaragua. Video editing and music doesn't make up for lack of respect and information.

@timboflex9004 3 жыл бұрын

I have been scouring the web to find an unbiased account, particularly of what you explain here. Do you have any sources for me? Purely academic interest

@TubeDisabuser 3 жыл бұрын

Au contraire, it does acknowledge Reagan's and Trump's obsessions with overthrowing the government, but doesn't seem to think anything is wrong with that, or with these U.S. allies quoted here

@armandjayne905 2 жыл бұрын

@@timboflex9004 James DeFronzo's book, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements is one of the most unbiased accounts on the Nicaraguan Revolution that I've encountered.

@danielcardona2714 Жыл бұрын

You just don’t like the video because it reveals that communism is bad and you don’t like it

@chunksloth 11 ай бұрын

The US was 100% correct to try and stop these fascist leftists. Now Nicaragua has been reduced to an authoritarian one-party state full of political prisoners and crackdowns. Stalin's term "useful idiots" continues to ring true.

@ninirema4532 Жыл бұрын

Dear all great very gentle very good morning and very good nicy day.

@aliettsaldana8646 4 жыл бұрын

Patria Libre! O Morir

@nurlatifahmohdnor8939 Жыл бұрын

Page 279 The dispute peaked during Pope John Paul II's visit to Nicaragua in March.

@051963mf Жыл бұрын

First look at who is making this video and then, using some critical thinking make a conclusion. If the Chamorros or any other Washington Consensus pleasers were in power, then they would be very happy.

@nurlatifahmohdnor8939 Жыл бұрын

sta-re-ka Sl.) = iron Costa Rica is a country.

@REDTEK161 2 жыл бұрын

"This is the first time a socialist ever left office peacefully through elections" well, that makes one more time than the capitalists, doesn't it? I can't think of one time a capitalist ever lost an election to a socialist and just turned over power peacefully. Maybe Allende in Chile? Oh, wait. Maybe MAS in Bolivia? Oh, wait... Capitalism and socialism are two systems completely at odds with each other. The class forces behind each system are inherently hostile and can only ever have a relationship of force between each other. The forces of capitalism have never behaved cordially or politely with working class and oppressed people, so how could it be any other way? Even these pink-tide democratic socialists projects have seen from experience that the only way to secure the gains of the revolution is at some point to take up arms in defense of your class. That's why Venezuela has popular militias, to defend itself against a constant onslaught of regime change attempts by the US. Democracy between capitalist and socialist politicians under a bourgeois electoral system is not democracy. Real democracy can only take place in a socialist society. Cuba is a shining example of what real democracy can look like, not these fake elections which are built to exclude socialist movements.

@MrKockabilly Жыл бұрын

Human society have advanced from Slavery, to Feudalism, then to the Industrial Age. The capitalists and the socialists are just the two faces of the industrial society that are diametrically opposed. So who should control the state - the capitalists or the workers (thru socialism)? But before one could become the sole world dominant system, the industrial age itself is disrupted - with the advent of the Information Age. Suddenly, the capitalists and the workers become not what they traditionally used to be. Those in power are not anymore who controlled the means of productions. They are now those who controls information. The capitalist states have changed its form and the socialist states have basically withered away. Soviet socialism fell from power. The foremost "socialist" states today - China, North Korea - are hardly the kind of states that put the proletariats in power. I'd say the we are still in the crossroad between industrial age to the information age. But these transformation would basically force us to look again at the theories and ideologies (Adam Smith, Karl Marx, etc) formulated way back when the Industrial Age was the predominant way how the society works, not knowing that the Industrial Age itself would decay and be replaced by a new one.

@danielcardona2714 Жыл бұрын

Man you are really gullible to propaganda if you feel that Cuba and Venezuela are good examples of what a country should be like, though you are a communist so you just hear what you want and everything else is wrong

@alvarez6487 2 жыл бұрын

The U.S funded Samoza, and the brutal contras.

@ecalder28612 11 ай бұрын

This sick proxy war accomplish nothing good. The only thing that accomplished was to spill the blood of brothers and sisters. The greedy hateful people are happy to see Nicaragua dealing with another dictatorship.

@DudesWithACamera 3 жыл бұрын

Lost me at the trump bashing

@TubeDisabuser 3 жыл бұрын

Good. Go away.

@Mike-mc3sh 2 жыл бұрын

Viva Sandino y Viva el FSLN!

@martymcfly5423 3 жыл бұрын

Ronald Reagan is a Hero

@taleeacosta9373 3 жыл бұрын

No he’s not - people like you like to circumvent the truth. Read the god damn history.

@skymaster4743 3 жыл бұрын

Reagan was as much of a hero as Bin Laden was a freedom fighter.

@ilcanalediwilly 3 жыл бұрын

@@skymaster4743 only for you Communists is not a hero

@guyincognito7979 2 жыл бұрын

@@ilcanalediwilly You can also say only for non fundamentalist muslims is bin laden a terrorist

@TubeDisabuser 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed a hero. Look at his spectacular success in overthrowing a secular Afghan government that (comparatively) respected women's rights and developed health care and education. Picking up on the Carter administration's baiting of the Soviet Union into entering Afghanistan, the Reagan gang trained, armed and financed the fanatical Islamists who later became the Taliban and other factions of mujahadeen. In September 2021 we can see what a success the U.S. project in Afghanistan is.