Leonard Lopate at Large: Jenny Murray

November 28, 2018 00:56:25
Leonard Lopate at Large: Jenny Murray
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Leonard Lopate at Large: Jenny Murray

Nov 28 2018 | 00:56:25

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Show Notes

On today's edition of Leonard Lopate at Large, Jenny Murray discuses the role of brave women in the Nicaraguan revolution of the late ’70s. “The documentary “‘¡Las Sandinistas!” compiles the reminiscences of women who fought with the Sandinistas, the revolutionary group in Nicaragua that toppled the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979 and then ruled that country until 1990,” writes Ben Kenigsberg of the New York Times. “In focusing on the testimonies of women, this film by Jenny Murray aims to memorialize what one participant, the poet Daisy Zamora, calls the ‘revolution inside the revolution.’ It argues that, despite chauvinism and sexual harassment from the movement’s male leaders, the Sandinistas were as groundbreaking for feminism as they were for ostensibly socialist governance.” https://youtu.be/_oFr1vn-UgA

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