Everybody Had His Own Gringo by Glenn Garvin

Everybody Had His Own Gringo by Glenn Garvin

The Reagan administration spent eight years and a vast amount of money backing the Contras in their bid to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Although the Sandinistas eventually were ousted, it was by the ballot box and not the M-16, for by that time the Contras had ceased to be a viable force. What caused their untimely demise? Some of the fault lies with the Contras themselves, but in this account of villainy, courage, incompetence and violent death in a country at war with itself, the author sets out to show that there is blame in Washington, too. Garvin covered the war for six years, often travelling with Contra combat units, and his work was nominated for Pulitzer Prizes in 1988 and 1989. He won the Mencken Award for Investigative Reporting.

Garvin, Glenn: - Glenn Garvin covered Latin America for nearly two decades, including five as chief of the Miami Herald's bureau in Managua, Nicaragua. His reporting took him to Cuba several times, and in 2001, when Fidel Castro's health seemed to be lagging, he was assigned to write an advance obituary -- an obituary that was updated many, many times over the next 15 years. He is the author of Everybody Had His Own Gringo: The CIA And The Contras, and (with Ana Rodriguez) Diary Of A Survivor: Nineteen Years In A Cuban Women's Prison.

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ISBN 13	9780080405629
ISBN 10	0080405622
Title	Everybody Had His Own Gringo
Author	Glenn Garvin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Potomac Books Inc
Year published	1995-02-13
Number of pages	304
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