Word: sacasa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who followed closely this portion of the speech wondered why Vice President Sacasa was absent from Nicaragua on Nov. 10, 1926. The President did not touch upon this point. Dr. Sacasa, of course, declares that he was absent because, had he been present he would have been shot down like a dog by his enemies: the Diaz-Charnorro faction. President Coolidge observed en passant, that at the end of November, after spending some time in Mexico City, Dr. Sacasa went back to Nicaragua, landing at Puerto Cabezas, near Bragman's bluff (with an armed force...
...inference is inescapable that, if Dr. Sacasa had been able to arrive with his forces before Nov. 10, instead of "at the end of November," he (Sacasa) would be today the Constitutional President of Nicaragua...
...President adduced no reason why Mexicans do not possess the same right to sell arms to the Sacasa faction that U. S. citizens exercise in selling arms to the Diaz faction. Instead President Coolidge defended his policy squarely and courageously on the ground that, "We have a very definite and special interest in the maintenance of order and good government in Nicaragua at the present time...
...Edged Threat. Aboard his flagship, the Rochester, anchored off Puerto Cabezas, Rear Admiral Latimer calmly directed the marines, landed recently (TIME, Jan. 3) as they maintained "a neutral zone to protect American lives" in such a way as to cut off the Liberal adherents of President? Juan Sacasa from their chief base. Meanwhile President* Adolfo Diaz welcomed another detachment of U. S. marines which arrived "to protect the U. S. Legation" at Managua, Capital of Nicaragua...
Actual fighting between the Sacasa (Liberal) and Diaz (Conservative) forces continued in the interior. Since false reports of success were sent out on both sides, the true state of the civil war remained obscure, but a total of at least 500 combatant Nicaraguans were killed last week...