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An account of US policy from the Sandinista revolution through the Iran-contra

scandal and beyond. Sklar shows how the White House sabotaged peace negotiations and sustained the deadly contra war despite public opposition, with secret US special forces and an auxiliary arm of dictators, drug smugglers and death squad godfathers, and illuminates an alternative policy rooted in law and democracy.

“A clear and compelling narrative... This is the best account to date of the bankrupt US policy in Nicaragua.”—The Progressive