Finished reading THE JAGUAR SMILE by Salman Rushdie.
In 1986, on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, Salman Rushdie visited Nicaragua for three weeks, a guest of the Sandinista Association of Cultural Workers.
Rushdie toured a large part of Nicaragua, both on its Pacific and Atlantic sides. He met with President Daniel Ortega, Vice-President Sergio Ramirez [a writer], Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal and even oppositionists like Violeta Chamorro who later became President after the fall of the Sandinistas in 1990.
“The Jaguar Smile”, Rushdie’s first non-fiction book, is about that trip to Nicaragua.