Sandino
：The Testimony of a Nicaraguan Patriot, 1921-1934
( Princeton Legacy Library )
Publication subTitle ：The Testimony of a Nicaraguan Patriot, 1921-1934
Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library
Author： Sandino Augusto C.;Conrad Robert Edgar;Ramírez Sergio;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781400861149
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691023199
Subject： K7 Americas History;K81 Biography;K82 China
Keyword： 美洲史,传记
Language： ENG
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Description
"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
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