Word: jinotega
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week "General" Jiron was captured by the U. S. Marine Corps' most potent bandit-catcher-1st Lieut. Herman Henry Hanneken, a blocky, clean-faced young native of St. Louis, Mo. Lieutenant Hanneken had arrived in Nicaragua just after Christmas, detailed to the nth Regiment in the Department of Jinotega. There coffee planters told terrifying tales of Jiron and his raids. Hanneken went out into the wilds and, in his own mysterious way, returned with Jiron, handed him over to the Nicaraguan officials...
...stopping occasionally to grimace at us. From the depths of the forest, mountain lions roar. Huge macaws wing across the sky, crying hoarsely and flashing crimson. We ford and re-ford the north-flowing tributary, for endless hours we toil across the Yali range, and finally drop down near Jinotega in another night of driving rain over a road where the horses roll pitifully, up to their bellies in mud. ... I was finally brought to ... General Sandino's headquarters ... at San Rafael del Norte ... in the Department of Jinotega on the high flank of the Yali Range...
During the week Liberal troops took Jinotega (near Matagalpa) from Conservative forces which quietly withdrew without offering battle...