The backstage of the current political crisis in Nicaragua: internal contradictions and geopolitics

This is an article about the Nicaraguan conflict, beyond what appears as a spontaneous movement that break into the middle of economic and social normality. Analyze some internal causes and emphasize external pressures. In this article we are interested in highlighting characteristic structural aspe...

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Autores: Villafuerte Solís, Daniel, García Aguilar, María del Carmen
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA
Repositorio:Espiral Estudios sobre Estado y Sociedad
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:espiral.cucsh.udg.mx:article/7108
Acceso en línea:http://espiral.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/EEES/article/view/7108
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Nicaragua | sociopolitical conflict | Sandinista National Liberation Front | geopolitics | Central America.
Nicaragua | conflicto sociopolítico | Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional | geopolítica | Centroamérica.
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Sumario:This is an article about the Nicaraguan conflict, beyond what appears as a spontaneous movement that break into the middle of economic and social normality. Analyze some internal causes and emphasize external pressures. In this article we are interested in highlighting characteristic structural aspects of the history of Nicaragua articulated to the Central American region, and the pressures of the international environment, in particular of the United States, which is determined to recover the lost hegemony after the failure of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) project, and the emergence of the “progressive governments”. The hypothesis that underlies this contribution is that the conflict that began in the spring of 2018 is a symptom of the contradictions accumulated from the unfulfilled promises of the triumph of the Sandinista revolution of 1979 and the way of governing during the last eleven years of the administration of Daniel Ortega.