Interview with Jeff Gould, 2014 February 21

This interview has access restrictions and is not available online. It may be accessed onsite at the Benson Latin American Collection.

Interview conducted in English. Jeff Gould, professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington, recounts his experiences living in Nicaragua during the Sandinista Government. In Part 1, Gould describes his academic history and initial interest in Central America. In Part 2, Gould chronicles the time he spent in Nicaragua in the 1979, during the time of the Sandinista Revolution, and in the 1980s while conducting PhD research. In Part 3, Gould tells specific stories about his experiences moving to Managua, Nicaragua in 1983 after the Sandinista government, and offers his perceptions of the events in Nicaragua occurring in the 1980s and early 1990s. This interview was conducted by Claudia Rueda, a graduate student in History, whose research focuses upon the Cold War in Central America and student protests in Nicaragua from 1937-1979.