Guerrilla narratives through the kaleidoscope of time: Rereading resistance in Nicaragua

Abstract

In Latin America, guerrilla warfare, used for gaining political and representational agency, declined as a mode of resistance and struggle at the end of the cold war. The peace treaties of El Salvador in 1992 and Guatemala in 1996 put an end to the era of el guerrilhro (the guerrilla fighter). Since then, traces of this Janus-like figure have shaped a lingering nostalgia for a kind of revolutionary mysticism, as well as an ideological disenchantment associated with post-cold war politics that gave rise to neoliberal hegemony across the continent.