Personas Desplazadas: The Miskitu Refugees from Nicaragua
This 1983 film by John Caldwell and Joel Sheesley examines the forced displacement of the Miskitu Indian Refugees from Nicaragua during the Reagan-era “Contra” war. In 1981, thousands of Miskitu Indians fled their ancestral homes in coastal Northeastern Nicaragua. The U.S. blamed the new leftist Sandinista government for driving the Miskitus out. Nicaragua denied this […]