Behind the Mask: Scenes From Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution – The New York Times

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Behind the Mask: Scenes From Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution

A commemorative reissue of Susan Meiselas’s book “Nicaragua” brings to life the young revolutionaries who toppled the Somoza dictatorship.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/behind-the-mask-scenes-from-nicaraguas-sandinista-revolution/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0

A photo of three men wearing traditional Nicaraguan folk masks and holding homemade contact bombs graced the cover of The New York Times Magazine on July 30, 1978. Alan Riding’s article, with photos by Susan Meiselas, chronicled the popular uprising against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle.