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Sandino - The Testimony of a Nicaraguan Patriot, 1921-1934 (Hardcover)
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Sandino - The Testimony of a Nicaraguan Patriot, 1921-1934 (Hardcover)
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"Washington is called the father of his country; the same may be
said of Bol!var and Hidalgo; but I am only a bandit, according to
the yardstick by which the strong and the weak are
measured."--Augusto C. Sandino. For the first time in English, here
are the impassioned words of the remarkable Nicaraguan hero and
martyr Augusto C. Sandino, for whom the recent revolutionary regime
was named. From 1927 until 1933 American Marines fought a bitter
jungle war in Nicaragua, with Sandino as their guerrilla foe. This
artisan and farmer turned soldier was an unexpectedly formidable
military threat to one of the succession of regimes that the United
States had imposed on that country beginning in 1909. He was also
the creator of a deeply patriotic language of protest--eloquent,
often naive, sometimes cruel, and always defiant. The documents in
this volume, presented chronologically, constitute a spontaneous
autobiography, a record not only of Sandino's adventurous life but
also of a crucial and often overlooked aspect of the relationship
between Nicaragua and the United States. Emblematic of the
deep-rooted U.S. entanglement in Nicaraguan affairs is the fact
that Anastasio Somoza, who assassinated Sandino in 1934, was the
father of the Somoza overthrown by the Sandinistas in 1979. By 1933
Sandino's guerrilla army had at last forced the departure of the
American Marines from Nicaragua, and in that same year he had
negotiated a peace agreement with the new president, Juan Bautista
Sacasa. Sacasa granted Sandino and a hundred followers a large
tract of government land to establish an agricultural cooperative,
and Sandino agreed to partial disarmament of of his men. But a year
later he was seized near the presidential mansion by solders of
Somoza's National Guard and assassinated with two of his generals.
The National Guard then attacked and destroyed his cooperative.
Both before and after Sandino's brutal assassination, Somoza tried
to discredit the idiosyncratic blend of political, religious, and
theosophical ideas through which Sandino inspired his soldiers.
Included among the documents here are expressions not only of
Sandino's military preoccupations and of his philosophy but also of
his practical concerns about worker organization and legislation,
the rights of women and children, the protection and development of
Nicaragua's Indians, Central American unification, construction of
a Nicaraguan canal for the benefit of Nicaraguans and the world in
general, Indo-Hispanic cooperation, and land reform. This work,
which is based on the two-volume Spanish edition compiled by Sergio
Ramirez, includes an introduction by Robert Conrad setting
Sandino's life in historical context. Originally published in 1990.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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