Word: chinandega
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...guard also said government troops were fighting rebels in Chinandega and Esteli. The rebels, led by guerrillas of the leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front, launched a general uprising last weekend in an effort to oust Somoza...
President Juan Sacasa of Nicaragua (recognized by Mexico) was hard pressed in the Interior by troops of President Diaz of Nicaragua (recognized by the U. S.). Sacasa forces had been pressing hard early in the week, upon Diaz troops defending the cities Chinandega, Leon and loma. When these cities were occupied by U. S. marines, their onetime defenders were able to rally and rout the attacking troops. The instant was ripe for President Diaz, synchronous with U. S. financial interests, to propose the further subordination of his country...
Scattered Nicaraguans of no identifiable faction became so incensed that they fired in the general direction of a trainload of U. S. marines moving from Chinandega to Leon. No hair of a U. S. head was injured but U. S. news organs favorable to the Coolidge-Kellogg policy began to whoop up war: "American marines run the gauntlet of a leaden hail. . . . Bullets plowed through the wooden coaches of the train. . . . The marines' commander organized a punitive expedition and instructed his men to chase, shoot or capture the attackers...