Incansable combate del campesinado nicaragüense por su autonomía

Abstract

Peasants and indigenous people were the main protagonists in the armed conflict in Nicaragua which ended in 1990. Even if this conflict has been “framed” as an ideological dispute that played out on the periphery during the last throes of the Cold War, the fact that it stemmed from the question of access to land became indisputable during the peace process. Today, the legacy of an unresolved agrarian situation has created new forms of conflict that result both from historical circumstances and from evolutions in the (economic and environmental) role assigned to rural areas. These transformations have an impact on the (outside and self) perception of the peasantry and the different (social and ethnic) categories that compose it.

Keywords

• peasantry
• politics
• conflict
• autonomy
• Nicaragua