Sandinistas in SF

Unfinished History

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Nicaraguans in San Francisco did important support work for the 1978 revolution, especially in the Mission. Several people trained on local hilltops for guerrilla war, running around the Bernal Heights ring road five times a day.

Photo: Nina Serrano

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz describes how Nicaraguan Revolution was affected by having had a number of its leading militants live in San Francisco during the 1970s.

Video interview: Chris Carlsson, edited by Joe Caffentzis

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Alejandro Maciel, one of the founders of the Mission Cultural Center, stands before his mural-style poster of Mexican rebel Lucio Cabañas.

Photo: Nina Serrano


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