The New Nicaragua: Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States

ISBN-13: 9780313379581 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 286 str.

Steven E. Hendrix

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At the time of Ortega's return to the presidency, attorney and award-winning author Steven Hendrix was on the ground in Nicaragua working for the U.S. Agency for International Development. "The New Nicaragua: Lessons in Development, Democracy, and Nation-Building for the United States" is Hendrix's eyewitness account of the changes going on there.

What Hendrix found in the new Nicaragua is a decidedly mixed bag: a presidential campaign marked by dirty tricks and backroom deals, yet an election held under the first neutral comprehensive observation ever in the developing world; an overt effort to appease the United States even while attempting to undermine U.S. policy in the region. Yet despite this, Hendrix saw U.S. pro-democracy, civil society efforts succeed, disproving the many skeptics who doubt that nation-building is even possible.