{"product_id":"blood-on-the-border-roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-9780806153841","title":"Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War","description":"\u003cbr\u003e Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as \"a force of nature on the page and off.\" That force is fully present in \u003ci\u003eBlood on the Border\u003c\/i\u003e, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, \u003ci\u003eBlood on the Border\u003c\/i\u003e is Dunbar-Ortiz's firsthand account of the decade-long dirty war pursued by the Contras and the United States against the people of Nicaragua. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the 1981 bombing of a Nicaraguan plane in Mexico City--a plane Dunbar-Ortiz herself would have been on if not for a delay--the US-backed Contras (short for \u003ci\u003elos contrarrevolucionarios\u003c\/i\u003e) launched a major offensive against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, which the Reagan administration labeled as communist. While her rich political analysis of the US-Nicaraguan relationship bears the mark of a trained historian, Dunbar-Ortiz also writes from her perspective as an intrepid activist who spent months at a time throughout the 1980s in the war-torn country, especially in the remote northeastern region, where the Indigenous Miskitu people were relentlessly assailed and nearly wiped out by CIA-trained Contra mercenaries. She makes painfully clear the connections between what many US Americans today remember only vaguely as the Iran-Contra \"affair\" and ongoing US aggression in the Americas, the Middle East, and around the world--connections made even more explicit in a new afterword written for this edition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A compelling, important, and sobering story on its own, \u003ci\u003eBlood on the Border\u003c\/i\u003e offers a deeply informed, closely observed, and heartfelt view of history in the making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806153849\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806153841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994910556415,"sku":"9780806153841","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_629f529e-f364-4130-83d4-9d97d2cae57f.jpg?v=1683332897","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blood-on-the-border-roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-9780806153841","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}