The Mixed Economy in Nicaragua: The Economic Battlefield

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Revolutions herald the prospect of great possibilities. They also bring forth turmoil. Nicaragua has been a society in turmoil since the overthrow of the last Somoza in July 1979. The purpose of this chapter is to analyze one aspect of that turmoilthe economic organization of post-Somoza Nicaragua. To refer to the economic organization of Nicaragua after the revolution, the term mixed economy will be used, which is defined as a situation in which both state property and private property relations play an important role in the productive sectors of the economy. Insofar as a mixed economy can be considered as a conscious strategy pursued in Nicaragua (an issue dealt with later), the goal of this strategy was to secure the cooperation of the domestic and foreign propertied interests in the task of reconstructing a society devastated by war.1 It will be argued that this goal was not achieved, not even in the early days of the Nicaraguan Revolution.

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