Mystique succumbs to power -- The vanguard of the vanguard -- Daniel and Humberto Somoza -- The new rich -- Worldview and ideology -- Here's mud in your eye -- The godfather and the poor brother in the family -- The Soviet Union and the Sandinistas -- The MiG umbrella that never was -- Beyond Nicaragua's borders -- The gringo imperialists -- Framework of control -- Promoting poverty -- The sentinel of the people's happiness -- A giant, blind and deaf, flailing wildly -- A military doctrine to beat the gringos -- The war that needn't have been -- Peace as a strategy in war -- Sandinismo : from government to opposition.