Nicaragua

"Nicaragua has become an American obsession. Although its population is less than Oklahoma's, it drove the Reagan administration into such desperate acts as the covert mining of its harbors and the Iran-Contra fiasco. But through it all, the country and its people have remained an enigma to us. William Gentile's camera probes deep into Nicaragua and discovers a simple, innocent people trying to make a life amid the brutal, U.S. funded war. The images are startling. A dead soldier lies in a wooden box, in the background a mother breast-feeds her child; a baseball team in crisp white uniforms shoulders rifles instead of bats; a sad-eyed peasant woman kneads tortilla flour while behind her the forest smolders and a battle rages."--Page 4 of cover.