Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long before the evil midnight when a company of Nicaraguan National Guardsmen murdered their country's most famed character, Augusto Cesar Sandino (TIME, March 5), Sandino had said: "There are now three powers in Nicaragua: President Sacasa, the Guardia and myself." Though he was dead Sandino was last week still one of Nicaragua's three powers, but the order of importance had changed...
...commander. General Anastacio Somoza, had undermined President Juan Bautista Sacasa's prestige by the simple device of depositing a big arms shipment from the U. S. in his own warehouse instead of the Government's. By last week he had cornered most of the guns in Nicaragua and he needed them, for nearly everybody believed that it was he who had ordered the murder of Sandino...
Sandino's memory was still the most combustible thing in Nicaragua. To fill the great little man's boots, a swart, chunky dentist named Pedro Jose Zepeda popped up in Mexico City last week and announced that he had the papers that entitled him to leadership of Sandino's followers. Cried he: "I have ten generals and 1,500 armed men ready to take the field at the order of President Sacasa against the dictatorship now in control of the country [Somoza...
Then Dentist Zepeda set a match to Nicaragua's prime emotion: suspicion of the U. S., of which Sandino was hero and symbol. "I am suspicious," said Zepeda, "of the fact that the U. S. Minister to Nicaragua Arthur Bliss Lane had luncheon with General Somoza only a few hours before Sandino was assassinated by Somoza's National Guardsmen." Well-known is the fact that Somoza has potent friends among the U. S. citizens in Nicaragua, as has President Sacasa...
While Zepeda lingered in Mexico City, Nicaraguan National Guardsmen prowled about Sandino's back-country stronghold on the Rio Coco last week, killed eight Sandinistas, captured six and a quantity of precious ammunition. Meanwhile a Col. Camilo Gonzalez, formerly of Nicaragua's National Guard, was landed last week at Manhattan's Ellis Island from the S. S. Santa Ana. A Costa Rican newshawk had somehow gotten and published a story that Gonzalez had bragged of killing Sandino on ''direct written orders from General Somoza...