A little history of Nicaragua from the late 1980s

JUGGLING DURING WARTIME IN NICARAGUA – JUGGLERS FOR PEACE

Photo: Graham Ellis

Days after the assassination of juggler and engineer Benjamin Linder by soldiers from Los Contra, more artists arrived in Nicaragua. It was the Jugglers For Peace group. They landed in Managua in 1987, ready to tour the cities that were hit by the war. 

The members of the group in that year were: Graham Ellis, Cort Peterson and Sean Minnock, from Hawaii; Sara Felder, from San Francisco, United States; Mark Deutschmann,from Nashville, United States; and Tim King, from Denmark. The idea was to make presentations to the children and perform shows in hospitals, schools, and public squares in Nicaragua. But Linder’s death caused the tour to be extended, with acts of commemoration.

GUEST: John Perry, writer living in Masaya, Nicaragua

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: John Perry, writer living in Masaya, Nicaragua whose articles have appeared in FAIR, The Guardian UK, and the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, talks about the threat of US imperialism directed at Nicaragua.

https://fair.org/home/progressive-media-promoted-a-false-story-of-conflict-beef-from-nicaragua/

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