Salinas: Los dilemas de la modernidad

by Tomás Borge

El autor de este libro, figura destacada del movimiento antisomocista en Nicaragua y ministro del Interior en el gobierno sandinista, asume aquí su vocación periodística y escribe una biografía del ex presidente mexicano que da a la prensa pocos días antes del nombramiento de Luis Donaldo Colosio como candidato del PRI. Es, pues, una fuente de información ante res producto de numerosas entrevistas con familiares y políticos y con el propio ex presidente.

258 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1993

About the author

Tomás Borge Martínez (often spelled as Thomas Borge in United States newspapers) was a cofounder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua and was Interior Minister of Nicaragua during one of the administrations of Daniel Ortega. He was also a renowned statesman, writer, and politician. Tomás Borge also held the titles of "Vice-Secretary and President of the FSLN", member of the Nicaraguan Parliament and National Congress, and Ambassador to Peru. Considered a hardliner, he led the "prolonged people's war" tendency within the FSLN until his death.

Borge was the author of several works of poetry, essays, and an autobiography. The Cuban poet Roberto Fernandez Retamar believes that Borge's book "Carlos, el amanecer no es sólo un sueño", which he wrote in prison, is comparable in literary merit to the documentary prose of Gabriel García Márquez.

Some of his published titles are "The Patient Impatience", "A Grain of Corn", and "The Anticipated Ceremony".