Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Augusto Cesar Sandino walked slowly through the white portico of Nicaragua's Presidential Palace and stepped into his car. His stomach was warm with the fine dinner his oldtime friend and fellow rebel, President Juan B. Sacasa, had given him. He was among friends: the father who had brought him up a Liberal, his brother Socrates, two of his favorite generals, Estrada and Umanzor, and the Minister of Agriculture, Sofonias Salvatierra, his host in Managua. From the Palace eminence on a dead volcano he could see all Managua lying flat under a pale moon, its two-story houses...
...hero and symbol of Latin-Americans' resentment against what they call "The Colossus of the North," sent a pang of sorrow and dismay from the Rio Grande to the Horn. Named for a Caesar by his well-to-do coffee planter father, Sandino got a fair education at Nicaragua's Granada Institute de Oriente, roved aimlessly north. He worked in mines, in U. S.-owned oil fields, in filling stations and for a Banana company. He was back in Nicaragua when Dr. Sacasa and General Jose Maria Moncada set off a Liberal revolution in 1926. A vengeful-looking...
Murdered. Augusto Cesar Sandino, "bandit" and U. S. Marine-baiter; in Managua, Nicaragua...
...capitalist adventurers, he told it to the Marines with bullets, writing bloody pages in one of the most sordid chapters in American imperialism. For five years Sandino led a band of ragged followers in guerilla warfare as Supreme Chief of the Army of Defenders of the National Sovereignty of Nicaragua. "God and our mountains fight for us," he told his hero-worshipping troops. The Marines questioned the divine nature of his assistance, but they were sure of his skill in mountain fastnesses. For five years they sought to capture him, bombing him from airplanes, attempting to storm his retreats...
Ecuador. At Callao, Peru, Secretary Hull and party boarded the sleek, sumptuous Grace Liner Santa Barbara. So did the Pan-American delegations of Nicaragua, Haiti. Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala. Off La Libertad, Ecuador the Santa Barbara with her load of diplomacy stopped briefly, but not long enough for Secretary Hull to pay even a flying visit to the Capital. However, a boatload of welcoming Ecuadorian officials scrambled aboard, were treated to food & oratory at Secretary Hull's expense...