Video Interview with Mateo Jarquin
Winter 2019, Volume XVIII, Number 2
Mateo Jarquin is a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard’s Department of History. He is writing his thesis on the Sandinista Revolution. In this interview, he discusses how pension reform sparked protest in Nicaragua, which he uses as an insight into the politics of Nicaragua and surrounding regions.
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