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My first visit to Honduras was with a student group in 1997. We were a group of eighteen students and an anthropology professor, studying sustainable farming techniques and the growing impacts of free-trade policies. With us was also Glenda, a former Maryknoll nun who had spent a significant part of...
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| Published in | Gothic Sovereignty p. 32 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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University of Texas Press
01.02.2022
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | My first visit to Honduras was with a student group in 1997. We were a group of eighteen students and an anthropology professor, studying sustainable farming techniques and the growing impacts of free-trade policies. With us was also Glenda, a former Maryknoll nun who had spent a significant part of her life in Nicaragua. Having grown up in North Dakota, she arrived to Nicaragua in 1963 during the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza García, whose family would rule the country for forty-two years. She witnessed the brutality of their regime, then the Sandinista Revolution in 1979, the rise of the Contras |
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| ISBN: | 9781477324158 1477324151 |
| DOI: | 10.7560/324158.7 |