Word: sacasa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President brought the "rightness" of U. S. recognition of Senor Diáz down to a specific point. Was or was not Dr. Sacasa (the duly elected Vice President of Nicaragua) in Nicaragua on Nov. 10, 1926? He was not. Very well. Article 106 of the Nicaraguan Constitution provides that in the absence of the President and Vice President, the Congress shall designate one of its members to complete the unexpired presidential term. The Vice President was absent. The President, Se?r Solorzano had resigned. Therefore the Nicaraguan Congress acted constitutionally on Nov. 10, 1926, when it elected Adolfo Diaz President...
...nice that those Nicaraguans are fixed up at last?" But shrewder observers in Washington and all of Central America knew that President Diaz's soup was not without sediment. The chief trouble was and still is that Nicaragua has another "legal" President-Dr. Juan Sacasa, Liberal, the Vice President who came into power when President Solorzano resigned a year...
...inevitable that these two "legal" Presidents and their backers should do battle. Nicaraguan squabbles are no great cataclysms, since the peacetime strength of their army is 2,500 men. Mexico complicated matters by selling arms to President Sacasa's Liberals, who were doing well in a military way until Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer landed U. S. Marines from his flagship, the U. S. S. Rochester, on the Mosquito (eastern) Coast of Nicaragua a fortnight ago. Acting on instructions from the Department of State, Rear Admiral Latimer set about to maintain the Bluefields neutral zone, ordered armed forces...
From one source we hear that Diaz, head of the constitutional party, is the servile puppet of United States business interests. From another, he is the white hope of law and order. So also, Sacasa, liberal leader, is said to represent "the pee-pul" of Nicaragua in their fight against United States influence and to be a man of the highest integrity and sincerity. From another angle he is probably a Bolshevist agent, whose chief motive for attacking the established power is hope of graft or desire for revenge...
...tangle that only American Marines can unravel, one thing seems not impossible, War with Mexico may follow. On the Atlantic Coast Admiral Latimer is landing arms and men to pro up Diaz. On the Pacific the Calles government is indulging in a quiet little filibustering in favor of Sacasa...