Who won the war in Nicaragua? Apparently, no one. Pictures from a Revolution examines photographer Susan Meiselas’s journey to find the people she photographed in Nicaragua during the 1970s and 1980s. She uses the photos to reach out to people, many of whom are blunt about their shattered hopes. Both supporters of the Sandinista government […]
The production values are terrible. The acting is bad. But this is a movie worth watching. Set in the early 1980s, Latino follows a Chicano soldier recruited to train Nicaraguan counterrevolutionaries along the Honduras side of the border. They were called “contras.” Whether the contras were a home grown group or one created and funded […]
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