Word: sandino
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...still working out how to deal with borders and other cultures." Farther west in Tucson, Dr. Michael Meyer, director of the Latin America Center at the University of Arizona, points out the inordinate influence of American culture. "I doubt that one American out of 10,000 would know who Sandino was," he says, referring to the Nicaraguan guerrilla leader who in the late 1920s and early 1930s defiantly resisted U.S. intervention in his country and whose name was appropriated by Nicaragua's currently reigning Sandinistas. "Yet nine out of ten Latins know who George Washington...
Nicaragua's ambassador told Managua's Radio Sandino that the vote was "nothing more than recognition of the sentiments of the majority of the North American people...
Glimpses of daily life like this invite comparisons to Poland or Czechoslovakia, Angola or Ethiopia, Libya or Iran. It is a question of style as much as of substance, and the style is apparent upon arrival at Managua's Sandino Airport. The traveler is confronted by immigration officers in high, completely enclosed wooden booths with thick glass windows and heavy curtains. Out of sight, the officer rustles mysteriously through what seems to be a thick book. Then he appears to scribble furiously for a minute or two. After a final scrutiny of the traveler's face, the passport is pushed...
After 14 landings by the U.S. Marines over the past century and a quarter, the last occupation covering seven years in the 1920s and 1930s while the marines chased Augusto Cesar Sandino, Nicaraguans have come to feel they should be surprised by nothing the United States undertakes to do to them. When we were unable to catch up to Sandino, the Marines withdrew, installing the Somoza dynasty in their stead. The first Somoza caught up with Sandino almost immediately and had him assassinated...
...Somoza II and III, all supported politically and financially by the United States. The dynasty reached its fullest flower with Somoza III, who sold everything he could find in Nicaragua, including the blood of his fellow citizens, to the United States. The Somozas persevered until they were overthrown by Sandino's spiritual successors, the Sandinistas...