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Orlando Nunez Author

Roger Burbach is Director of the Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA) in Berkeley, California. Between 1971 and 1973 he lived in Chile and worked for the Centro de Estudios Socio-Economicos until the military coup which toppled Allende. He has written extensively on Latin America and on US intervention in Central America.

Orlando Nunez is Director of the Center for the Study of Agrarian Reform in Managua. He was imprisoned during the revolutionary struggle against Somoza and since his release has been a leading strategist of Nicaragua's agrarian reform. He is author of a political novel, Dia de Gloria, set in Nicaragua, and recently contributed to the symposium 'Transition and Development: Problems of Third World Socialism'.