Memoria y biopolítica en los procesos históricos: construcción de un discurso sobre la Revolución Sandinista en Alsino y el cóndor (Littin, 1987)

Abstract 

The article aims to analyze the way in which, from the perspective of memory and biopolitics, Miguel Littin’s film, Alsino and the Condor, shot in 1987, articulates a story about the Sandinista Revolution before its triumph in 1979, by recovering above all the anti-imperialist, anti-colonial and popular character of the process. The film tells the story of a peasant child whose life is marked forever when the US Marines establish a military base in his home town to fight, together with the Nicaraguan National Guard, against the Sandinista guerrillas.

Keywords 

Coloniality/imperiality, Sandinista revolution, anti-imperialism, memory, sandinism

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