Mateo Jarquín

Aug 7, 2024 | revista.drclas.harvard.edu | Mateo Jarquín

Omar Torrijos, military dictator of Panama, may be one of the most understudied leaders in modern Latin American history. After seizing power in 1968, he reshaped the country’s destiny, most notably by negotiating the transfer of the Panama Canal from U.S. to Panamanian control in 1977. Up until his sudden death in 1981, he also played an outsized role in inter-American affairs.

Jul 22, 2024 | english.elpais.com | Mateo Jarquín |Wilfredo Miranda Aburto

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Jul 18, 2024 | elpais.com | Mateo Jarquín

Hace 45 años triunfó en Nicaragua la Revolución Sandinista, punto crítico en la historia de América Latina por ser la primera y última vez que la izquierda armada llegó al poder en la región después de Cuba en 1959. Nicaragua, hoy como en aquel entonces, es un país joven. Su población tiene una edad media de 24 años (la de España tiene 43).

Jul 15, 2024 | confidencial.digital | Mateo Jarquín

El Frente Sandinista iba a ganar. Pocos días antes de las elecciones de 1990, un sondeo realizado por The Washington Post/ABC otorgaba una ventaja de 16 puntos a la fórmula del comandante Daniel Ortega y Sergio Ramírez sobre Violeta Barrios de Chamorro y su compañero de campaña, Virgilio Godoy.

May 14, 2024 | historynewsnetwork.org | Mateo Jarquín

A Nicaragua obsession gripped the United States in the 1980s. For one, the unlikely overthrow of the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship by left-wing guerrillas electrified progressives. Tens of thousands of Americans — including Bernie Sanders, the young mayor of Burlington, Vermont — traveled in solidarity to the previously obscure Central American country to help the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) redistribute wealth and transform its society.