Word: sacasa
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...night last week the children of President Juan Bautista Sacasa of Nicaragua sauntered out to the Fiesta de Agosto ("Harvest Festival"), left him seated pensive at his desk...
Driven in state to the Presidential Palace, General Sandino was asked to stay all night. President Juan Bautista Sacasa used to be a general. When he laid down his arms at the U. S.'s behest, his subordinate, Sandino, refused to do likewise, fought on, always declaring that he would stop fighting if and when the Marines were withdrawn. Before going to bed Sandino and Sacasa had a thoroughgoing talk, came to terms which they signed at midnight: 1) The undefeated Sandinistas will peacefully present their arms to the Sacasa Government within three months; 2) Sandinistas who present arms...
...partly because of Mexican suspicions that the Nicaraguan Government has been a set-up propped by U. S. Marines. Now that the props are gone, Mexico, according to El National, may soon find it possible to recognize the 100% Nicaraguan Government of newly inaugurated Nicaraguan President Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa...
...Pacific port in which lay the transports Henderson and Antares creaked with the shuffle of 1790 brown shoes. Behind lay six years of bush warfare. Behind lay 20 officers and 115 men killed in action. Behind lay Revolutionist Augustino Sandino still at large. Behind lay President Juan Bautista Sacasa inaugurated day before with President Hoover's "warmest good wishes for a very successful administration." Behind lay one of the most controversial episodes in all U. S. foreign policy. Not left behind were 16 native girls whom 16 Marines had taken to wife...
Last week the only one of former "Red" Sacasa's former officers who was still fighting U. S. Marines?and has fought them for five long years?was General Augusto Cesar Sandino. During the electoral campaign General Sandino, who was not officially a candidate, abruptly proclaimed his rebel camp the "Capitol of Nicaragua." Not wishing to be bombed or to feel a Marine's bayonet between his ribs. General Sandino kept secret the whereabouts of his "Capitol," well hidden in the Nicaraguan mountains near Honduras. Announced he: "I do not recognize Sacasa as the winner of election. I shall...