Tuesday Seminar on Latin American Studies

Date: 

Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room (S030)

"Resistance and Repression: One Year on from Nicaragua's Civil Uprising"

Speaker:

Kai Thaler, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Moderator:

Steven Levitsky, Faculty Associate; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Populism/Challenges to Democracy. David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University; Harvard College Professor.

Contact:

Jillian Scales
jscales@fas.harvard.edu

Abstract:

How did Nicaragua's protest movement grow so quickly in 2018, and how has President Daniel Ortega's regime survived the most serious threat yet to its rule? With activists in prison, exiled, or killed, what options remain for the opposition? One year on, we look at the roots and trajectory of Nicaraguan civil resistance campaign.