Augusto cesar sandino death penalty

  • Sandino was executed in 1934 by National Guard forces of General Anastasio Somoza García, who went on to seize power in a coup d'état two years later.
  • Augusto Sandino was a radical nationalist, fighting tooth and claw for most of his abbreviated life to eject the Marines from his home.
  • It adopted the political platform of Augusto Cesar Sandino, with his anti-imperialist and revolutionary In Nicaragua there is no death penalty.

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    Remembering Sandino

    Come, morphine addicts, come and kill us in our own land. I await you before my patriotic soldiers, feet firmly set, not worried about how many of you there may be. But keep in mind that when this happens the Capitol Building in Washington will shake with the destruction of your greatness, and our blood will redden the white doom of your famous White House, the cavern where you concoct your crimes.

    –Augusto César Sandino, San Albino Manifesto. 1927.

    On February 21, 1934, thirty-one years to the day before Malcolm X was gunned down at Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom, a similarly historic assassination took place in a much smaller country a few thousand miles to the south.

    That evening, General Augusto César Sandino attended a banquet held by the new president of Nicaragua to celebrate the end of a decades-long civil conflict. Presumably, Sandino felt confident that his movement’s success had secured him a degree of influence in the recently reunified na

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    Page 9 of Fat File on Sandino Situation, US Military Intelligence Division, 1928-33

     

    Documents are presented here in their original sequence as found in three bulging file folders titled "Sandino Situation," Record Group 165, Entry 77, Box 2653, US National Archives II, College Park MD.

          Grateful appreciation is extended to Mr. Brandon Ray, Summa Cum Laude college graduate from Ashford University in Iowa (with a B.A. in History and a minor in Political Science) for his exacting transcriptions on this page and the previous eight pages.  Thank you Brandon!

    1.  June 17, 1930.  G-2 Translation of article in El Dictamen, Veracruz, May 30, 1930, letter from Dr. Pedro José Zepeda,

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    I wrote this during my four-month accidental-study-abroad in Nicaragua.

    My footnotes won’t transfer, but all my sources are at the bottom. If you have any questions send me an email!

    From Sandino to Sandinista: Comparing Nicaraguan Revolutionary Movements

    Introduction

    The huvud American republic of Nicaragua has had a tumultuous history, rife with occupations, revolutions, and tyranny for hundreds of years. In the 1920s, Augusto Cesar Sandino sought to liberate Nicaragua from the clutches of U.S. imperialism, refusing to lay down his arms until the “Colossus of the North” had fled, or until he had been killed. The U.S. military forces retreated, however, a U.S.-backed government under Anastacio Somoza Garcia swiftly took power and had Sandino assassinated. Though Sandino was successful in some ways and unsuccessful in others, his legacy lives on nonetheless as a tecken of Nicaraguan national honor and anti-imperialism. 

    Revolutionary thinker Carlos Fonseca’s Sandi