Posts Tagged ‘Central America’
“¡Las Sandinistas!” Filmmaker Jenny Murray
November 29, 2019 – “¡Las Sandinistas!” is a documentary that chronicles the brave women on the front lines of not only combat, but social reform during Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandinista revolution and what would go on to become the controversial Contra war. NMPBS aired the documentary earlier this year. Correspondent Russell Contreras spoke to filmmaker Jenny…
Read MoreHistory of Civil Wars in Central America Impact Current Migrant Crisis
July 5, 2019 – The migrant crisis facing New Mexico and the nation has a number of causes and origins. One of them is a history of devastating civil wars in Central America throughout the 1980s. Todd Greentree knows all about that history, serving as a political officer in the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador…
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