This movie, while in a technical respect probably somewhat less than perfect, still succeeds in shedding new light on the contribution of the leading female characters or, if you will, the secret female leaders of the Nicaraguan Revolution.
I believe it does also a tremendous job in exposing the cheapness of a common argument according to which most decidedly socialist movemens in Latin America and elsewhere in the world are ultimately no better than there authoritarian predecessors. For the picture makes a strong case for the view that in Nicaragua the revolution ended up being hijacked by the wrong (Ortega's) people, whereas at the grassroots there was and still is and active strive for both general welfare AND equal civil & political rights. This is important, since historically speaking the latter have too often been fatally disregarded by socialist-reformist movements.
I believe it does also a tremendous job in exposing the cheapness of a common argument according to which most decidedly socialist movemens in Latin America and elsewhere in the world are ultimately no better than there authoritarian predecessors. For the picture makes a strong case for the view that in Nicaragua the revolution ended up being hijacked by the wrong (Ortega's) people, whereas at the grassroots there was and still is and active strive for both general welfare AND equal civil & political rights. This is important, since historically speaking the latter have too often been fatally disregarded by socialist-reformist movements.