Interview with Dora Maria Tellez, 2014 February 21

Interview conducted in Spanish. Dora María Téllez, former Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) commander and Minister of Health (1979-1990) in Nicaragua, discusses her childhood, education, and role in the Sandinista movement of the 1970s and 1980s. In this interview, Téllez begins with her childhood in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, attending medical school and living in León during the Somoza regime, and then details her involvement in the Sandinista Revolution and the Sandinista government in the 1980s. 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.