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Book - Nicaragua. June 1978 - July 1979 

Susan Meiselas 

Susan Meiselas's photographs of the revolution in Nicaragua form an extraordinary narrative, starting with a powerful and chilling evocation of the Somoza regime, following the course of the popular resistance that led to an insurrection, and ending with the triumph of the revolution. Yet "Nicaragua" is more than a remarkable account of a revolution in the making. It shows what rebellion in the Third World can involve, the nature of the "old regimes," as well as the courage that is required to overthrow even the pettiest of modern dictatorships. Susan Meiselas went back to Nicaragua to interview... 

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NICARAGUA. 1978. Traditional Indian dance mask from the town... 

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NICARAGUA. Santo Domingo. 1979. Main street in rural town.

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NICARAGUA. Managua. 1979. Women washing laundry in sewer of downtown... 

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NICARAGUA. 1979. Harvesting sugar cane near Leon. 

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NICARAGUA. Granada. 1979. Loading one hundred pound sacks of... 

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NICARAGUA. Managua. 1979. Country club.

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NICARAGUA. Managua. June 1978. President Anastasio SOMOZA DEBAYLE... 

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NICARAGUA. Matagalpa. June 1978. Children harassing Guards around... 

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NICARAGUA. June 1978. Recruits pass by official state portrait... 

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NICARAGUA. Matagalpa. June 1978. National Guard on duty. 

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NICARAGUA. Diriamba. June 1978. Marketplace. 

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NICARAGUA. Managua. 1981. "Cuesta del Plomo", hillside outside... 

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NICARAGUA. Monimbo. 1978. Wall graffiti on Somoza supporters... 

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NICARAGUA. Matagalpa. 1978. Residential neighborhood. 

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NICARAGUA. Managua. June 1978. Car of a Somoza informer burning... 

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NICARAGUA. Managua. June 1978. Student demonstration broken up... 

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NICARAGUA. Diriamba. June 1978. Burial of worker, with flag of... 

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NICARAGUA. Jonotepe. 1978. Coffins of students being carried... 

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NICARAGUA. Monimbo. July 5, 1978. Motorcycle brigade, followed... 

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NICARAGUA. June, 1978. Youths practice throwing contact bombs... 

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NICARAGUA. August 26, 1978. First day of popular insurrection.... 

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NICARAGUA. Matagalpa. September 1978. Muchachos (young rebels)... 

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NICARAGUA. Matagalpa. 1978. Muchachos await the counterattack... 

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NICARAGUA. Masaya. September 1978. Muchacho wearing wrestling... 

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NICARAGUA. Monimbo. 1978. Young boy killed during fighting; wall... 

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NICARAGUA. Esteli. September 1978. The fifth day of continuous... 

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NICARAGUA. Esteli. September 1978. National Guard entering Esteli.... 

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NICARAGUA. Masaya. 1978. Seizing government construction truck.... 

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NICARAGUA. Masaya. 1979. 

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NICARAGUA. Esteli. 1979. Townspeople taking goods from burned-out... 

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NICARAGUA. Esteli. September 20, 1978. Fleeing the bombing to... 

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NICARAGUA. Monimbo. 1979. Monimbo woman carrying her dead husband... 

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NICARAGUA. Masaya. September 1978. Body being burned by the Red... 

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NICARAGUA. Masaya. September, 1978. Returning home.

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NICARAGUA. Esteli. 1979. Toward Sandinista training camp in the... 

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NICARAGUA. 1979. Breakfast, rice. 

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NICARAGUA. 1979. Woman instructor teaching marksmanship to woman... 

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NICARAGUA. Mayasa. 1979. Guard patrol beginning house-to-house... 

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NICARAGUA. Cuidad Sandino. 1978. Searching everyone traveling... 

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NICARAGUA. February, 1979. Guard on daily patrol in the countryside.... 

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NICARAGUA. 1979. Paramilitary forces, as extension of National... 

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NICARAGUA. 1979. Wall calling for a popular democratic government... 

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NICARAGUA. Managua. 1979. Waiting at the central police station... 

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NICARAGUA. Masaya. June 8, 1979. Popular forces begin final offensive.... 

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NICARAGUA. Masaya. 1979. National Guardsmen trapped on main street... 

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NICARAGUA. Masaya. 1979. National Guard reinforcements entering... 

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NICARAGUA. Managua. June 1979. Muchachos take over neighborhood... 

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NICARAGUA. Managua. 1979. Street fighter.

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NICARAGUA. Matagalpa. July 1979. Sandinistas distributing arms... 

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NICARAGUA. San Isidro. June 13, 1979. Population of San Isidro... 

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NICARAGUA. Managua. 1979. Serving food to Sandinistas holding... 

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NICARAGUA. Esteli. 1979. Sandinista in a home in Esteli. 

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NICARAGUA. Esteli. 1979. Sandinistas in the streets of Esteli.... 

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NICARAGUA. San Isidro. June 1979. One hour after the taking of... 

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NICARAGUA. Esteli. 1979. Sandistas on daily rounds in Esteli... 

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NICARAGUA. Managua. June 1979. Neighborhood bomb shelter dug... 

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NICARAGUA. Managua. 1979. Children rescued from a house destroyed... 
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