Friends in Deed: The Story of U. S. - Nicaragua Sister Cities

by Sheldon Rampton and Liz Chilsen

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962073105
• ISBN13: 9780962073106
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Rampton's First Book w/ Great Photojournalism

Sheldon Rampton is best known for the 3 books he co-authored in 1995-2001: Toxic Sludge Is Good For You; Mad Cow USA; and, Trust Us, We're Experts, and as editor of PR Watch. But this was his first book written in the mid-1980s, and should be considered a valuable collectors item. Its a beautiful collaboration between Rampton and photojournalist Liz Chilsen, a how-to book for building people-to-people "sister city" relationships among citizens in the US and Nicaragua, then under attack by the Reagan Admininstration's proxy terrorist army, the Contra. The Contra were in fact led by former members of the dictator Somoza's brutal National Guard resurrected with US money and weapons and CIA direction as "freedom fighters" to (successfully) destroy the Sandinista Revolution. (A chapter in Toxic Sludge examines the US propaganda strategies in the US and in Central Americar.) This is an inspiring "how-to" book for anyone trying to figure out what can be done at the local and personal level to promote peace and understanding between the US and the third world. The prose is informative and the pictures precious. Amazingly, through all the trials and tribulations and passage of time, the grassroots-based US-Nicaragua network is alive, well and thriving, and just as Rampton predicted, doing much more for people in that dirt-poor and exploited nation than anything attempted recently by the callous US government.