Every year more than 1,000 North Americans travel to Nicaragua to volunteer their labor. These brigadistas, as they are called, spend between two weeks and three months as volunteer agricultural workers harvesting coffee and rice side-by-side with Nicaraguans. Brigadista presents, in their own words, some of these volunteers' experiences and the feelings these experiences generated. The author captures and conveys these experiences and feelings through interviews, articles, journal entries, photos, and descriptive pieces written by the volunteers. What emerges is an important first-hand account of Nicaragua, its people and its politics.
- ISBN10 0275900290
- ISBN13 9780275900298
- Publish Date 15 December 1985
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 February 2017
- Publish Country US
- Publisher ABC-CLIO
- Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 255
- Language English