Interview with Katherine Hoyt, 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 is in English. Katherine Hoyt, Co-Director of the Nicaragua Network Education Fund, details experiences from her 16 years spent living in Nicaragua. In Part 1, Hoyt discusses her first trips to Nicaragua, her life in Matagalpa in the 1960s and 1970s, and as a translator for the Sandinista Government. In Part 2, a follow up interview conducted over Skype, Hoyt details her personal experience with the events of the Frente Sandinista’s Final Offensive in 1979, the events leading up to the May Final Offensive, and how her life in Nicaragua changed after the Sandinista Government. The first portion of this interview was conducted in Austin, Texas, with the second portion being conducted via Skype at a later date. 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.