![]() It is a vibrant portrait of the Nicaraguan people and their volcanic land, a cultural history rich in poetry and bloodshed, baseball and insurrection. ![]() Widely considered the best-connected journalist in Central America, Kinzer personally met and interviewed people at every level of the Somoza, Sandinistas and contra hierarchies, as well as dissidents, heads of state, and countless ordinary citizens throughout the region.īlood of Brothers is Kinzer’s dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that burst into the headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. That year he opened the New York Times Managua bureau, making that newspaper the first daily in America to maintain a full-time office in Nicaragua. He returned many times during the years that followed, becoming Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe in 1981 and joining the foreign staff of the New York Times in 1983. ![]() In 1976, at age twenty-five, Stephen Kinzer arrived in Nicaragua as a freelance journalist-and became a witness to history. Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua is a 1991 book by Stephen Kinzer, an American author and The New York Times foreign correspondent who reported from Nicaragua during the Sandinista - Contras civil war period of the 1980s. ![]()
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