"A rare view of the Nicaraguan people's triumphs and tragedies through the Sandinista Revolution and the US-run Contra war, and to the grim aftermath. This moving and sensitive portrayal by Gentile and Ryan and some of their colleagues, tracing the lives of individuals over these turbulent years, until today, is a fitting tribute to the memory of Ry Ryan, a truly outstanding journalist who closely shared Nicaragua's hopes and travail -- and yet, remarkably, unquenchable hope for a better future. Others may draw their own lessons. To me, the message, searing and powerful, is that it is never too late for us to face what we have done and to try our best to help the victims salvage what they can from the wreckage of their lives and country for which we share a very large part of the responsibility."

Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor/Professor of Linguistics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“This film is a moving testament to the hardships faced by the Nicaraguan people now that Washington's foreign policy elite has shifted its attention elsewhere. By re-interviewing ordinary Nicaraguans they first spoke with a decade earlier, journalists Ry Ryan and Bill Gentile remind us that the Sandinista revolution and the U.S.-financed counter-revolution were not just foreign policy abstractions, but life-altering events for thousands of people. The experiences of these individuals from all walks of life are a microcosm of the tumultuous events that tore Nicaragua apart, leaving scars that are not yet healed.”

William M. LeoGrande
Dean of the School of Public Affairs
American University

“A moving study of Nicaragua since the world stopped watching when Washington's perceived problem was fixed in 1990. Though justifiably critical of the US media, this is a careful, balanced, accurate and sensitive documentary."

Thomas W. Walker
Professor, Ohio University
Author Nicaragua: Living In The Shadow Of The Eagle