U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua

“A detailed and useful analysis that gives us the perspective of an insider.”—British Bulletin of Publications

“Specialists will find Solaun’s highly detailed book invaluable, for never before have we had such a scathing insider critique of the contradictions marring Carter’s Nicaragua policy.”—Hispanic American Historical Review

“[The book] provides the audience with an extremely rich and detailed account of the relationship between the U.S. embassy and Nicaraguan political actors in the closing years of the dictatorship. . . . Solaún’s experience offers a valuable cautionary tale that can help students begin the process of removing those rose-colored glasses and approach the decision more maturely and with realistic expectations.”—Latin American Politics and Society

“Among the many accounts of the 1979 collapse of the Anastasio Somoza Debayle regime in Nicaragua, this book stands out. It is the most intimate report of the dictator’s mind in the regime’s last months, and yet it is broadly based theoretically. . . . The book is an extraordinary contribution to an understanding of the Somoza regime and to U.S.-Nicaraguan relations in the critical years 1977-1979.”—Charles L. Stansifer, The Historian

“This is an important contribution to the historical literature because complete documentation at the U.S. National Archives and the Carter Presidential Library remain unavailable to researchers.”—Thomas M. Leonard, Latin Americanist