SOCL 1246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Revolutionary Struggle, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Inclusive Democracy
17 Nov 2016
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1979 sadinista national liberation front assumed power over nicaraguan gov"t after dictatorship of anastasio somoza debayle created lots of social and envm programs to revitalize the country. Revolutionary ecology promote social and envm justice promote national sovereignty and control over countries natural resources promote model of sustainable development meeting needs of present and future generations promote ecological democracy by building popular democratic forms of social governance. 4 mutually reinforcing principles social and envm justice national sovereignty and self-determination sustainable development ecological democracy. Prelude to and ecological revolution: the social and environmental crisis of nicaragua under somoza. Somoza initialted policies to integrate nicaragua more fully into the world economy as a cheap supplier of ag commodities and raw materials. modernization and expansion of large ag estates under small class of large land owners. He owned 20% of nations prime farmland allied with egalitarian elite to receive bulk of foreign development aid and nancial credit to generate cheap exports.
