Word: sacasa
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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...
...Guardia had moved up to first. Its 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...
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...
...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 little man, scarcely five feet tall, part Indian, part Spanish, he talked well, was silent better. He gathered together 800 men and declared war. Sacasa and Moncada agreed to a government compromise, but not Sandino. He dismissed...
...sentry posted near the Presidential Palace fired several shots at a motor car which whizzed past in the night, not knowing that it contained Senor Rafael Huezo, acting manager of the National Bank of Nicaragua. Lifted from his car. Senor Huezo was carried into the palace where President Sacasa, for years a practicing physician, personally dressed a bullet wound on the banker's head, murmured, "not serious, dear friend, not serious...