Word: sacasa
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...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...
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...
...armed feud between President Adolfo Diaz of Nicaragua (recognized by the U. S.) and President Juan Sacasa of Nicaragua (recognized by Mexico) was crucially affected last week when Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer landed U. S. Marines from his flagship the U. S. S. Rochester, near Puerto Cabezas on the (Eastern) Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua...
Rear Admiral Latimer was not called upon to inspect the "rights" of the situation (see above). Sailorlike, he obeyed his orders from Washington. Curt, he commanded President Juan Sacasa to disarm his troops or withdraw them from the Puerto Cabezas area. Secondly, he ordered the local mahogany growers to pay taxes only to the Conservative Government of Adolfo Diaz. By these acts it appeared that the hopes entertained by Dr. Sacasa and the Mexican Government that he should continue President had been blasted...