This series comprises pamphlets and periodicals relating to political and cultural events in Nicaragua from 1979 to 1992. These dates encompass the year the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) seized power and the two years after the FSLN lost Nicaragua’s general election in 1990. Materials include pamphlets, magazines, whole newspapers, newspaper and magazine clippings, and scholarly journals. The series also contains copied selections from the volume Operaciones Sicologicas en Guerre de Guerrillas, a Contra-training manual produced by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Also included are posters and graphics from the Nicaragua Task Force (NTF), the Asociacion de Mujeres Nicaraguenses Luisa Amanda Espinoza (AMNLAE), and other organizations. Along with US media coverage of events in Nicaragua during this period, the series contains a significant amount of local material. This includes multiple formats and editions of Barricada, the FSLN’s primary print organ, a significant number of FSLN pamphlets, publications from the Asociacion de Trabajodores del Campo (ATC), a variety of political and arts-and-culture publications, materials highlighting women’s role in the revolution from AMNLAE, and pamphlets relaying the ideas of FSLN leader Daniel Ortega. The donors Carol Wells and Theodore Hajjar acquired items in this series through their work in the NTF and other organizations, and through their personal travels to Nicaragua in 1981, 1983, and 1985. Items in this series were collected in order to educate and inform NTF and other activists working in support of the Sandinista revolution in the US.

Materials are arranged alphabetically by folder or periodical title and in date order, whenever available. Undated materials are placed at the rear of the folder. Publications are in both English and Spanish.