Radio Cachimbona

Every Authoritarian Government Starts With Its Own False Self-Justification


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On this *UNLOCKED* #litreview from Season 3, Maria Jiménez-Zepeda, fellow first-gen Yale Latina alumna and Omega Phi Beta Sorority sister, comes back onto the podcast to discuss the second half of Nicaraguan revolutionary Gioconda Belli’s memoir “El Pais Bajo Mi Piel.” They discuss the series of macktivists* within the Sandinista/other Latin American lefitst movements encountered by Belli, analyzed US financial and military support of the Contras and the Somoza dictatorship versus US public-facing comments about the Sandinistas through a convergence theory lens, and applauded Belli for prioritizing her own creative endeavors while also organizing with the Sandinistas.

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