Dunbar-Oritz recounts on-the-ground memories of the contra war in Nicaragua, chronicling the US-sponsored terror inflicted on the people of Nicaragua following their 1981 election of the socialist Sandinistas, ousting Reagan darling and vicious dictator Samoza.About the Author: Author of the acclaimed memoirs Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years and Red Dirt: Growing up Okie, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a professor of Ethnic Studies at California State, Hayward. Dunbar-Ortiz has been a liberal, a radical revolutionary, a militant feminist, and through it all, an avid soldier for human liberation. She writes about making and living history.