Indio

About the Book

The lives of a Nicaraguan musician, an American reporter and a CIA officer intersect in 1983 in Sandinista Nicaragua. The president of the United States has labeled the Sandinistas Communist. He awaits an incident that will justify a direct American invasion of Nicaragua, and the U.S. ambassador to neighboring Honduras labors to create one for him. A kidnaping, a border massacre and an embassy explosion cement an unlikely friendship between Nicaraguan Gabriel "Indio" Saavedra and Robert Jorgensen, CIA

About the Author

An Oxfam America tour of Nicaragua and Honduras a few months after the Sandinista overthrow of the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza brought the Sitkins, Elmer and Patricia, to Central America for the first time and began their love affair with Nicaragua, the land and its people. Patricia returned for a few weeks each year during the eighties as a freelance reporter, watching an education program that increased national literacy from 55% to 92%, clinics springing up in villages that had never seen a doctor, and access to electricity and pure water spreading to remote areas. She watched too and twice found herself in the midst of the border attacks waged by the terrorists the American president called "freedom fighters."