Word: salvatierra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to make them confess that they were planning a revolution and, when they naturally refused to confess a thing of which they were not guilty, they were murdered by a volley of machine gun bullets. . . . Shortly afterward, another group of guardsmen attacked the home of Sofonias Salvatierra, Minister of Agriculture, and killed Socrates Sandino, Augusta's brother, two men and a ten-year...
...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 and paved streets dark and quiet. There was not a U. S. Marine in the place. Across the lake a pink plume of smoke...