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Augusto César Sandino

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

Augusto César Sandino , 1895-1934, Nicaraguan revolutionary general. A farmer and a mining engineer, he joined the liberal revolution (1926) against the conservative government headed by Adolfo Díaz and Emiliano Chamorro. He protested against the new U.S. intervention in Nicaragua in 1926 and rejected the Stimson-Moncada agreement for the elections of 1927. On this score Sandino broke with the liberal leader, José María Moncada, and conducted vigorous guerrilla campaigns (1927-33) against the U.S. marines. Never captured but finally reconciled after the withdrawal of the marines, he headed a cooperative farming scheme. In 1934 he was invited to meet with Gen. Anastasio Somoza , and when he did so, he was seized and executed. It is from his name that the Nicaraguan revolutionary group, the Sandinistas, derives its name.

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Sandino, Augusto César

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Sandino, Augusto César (19 May 1895, d. 21 Feb. 1934). Nicaraguan resistance fighter Son of a wealthy plantation owner, he joined the guerrilla movement in its fight against the US occupation of Nicaragua in 1926. After its end in 1933 he continued to oppose the new President Sacasa, as well as the National Guard under Anastasio Somoza García, as too compliant to the USA. Sandino agreed to meet the new authorities to try and reach a peace agreement, whereupon Somoza ordered his abduction and execution upon his leaving the presidential palace. A martyr at the hands of Somoza, Sandino inspired those who subsequently fought against the Somoza regime, and who united in 1961 to form the ‘Sandinistas’, the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (Sandinista Movement of National Liberation).

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Sandino, Augusto César

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

Sandino, Augusto César (1893–1934) nationalist leader in Nicaragua. He fought the conservative government during the Nicaraguan civil war (1926–27) and resisted U.S. occupation, vowing to fight until U.S. forces were withdrawn from Nicaragua. Sandino had widespread popular support and evaded capture by U.S. Marines and the Nicaraguan National Guard. After the withdrawal of the Marines in January 1933, Sandino became involved in peace negotiations. He was assassinated by Anastasio Somoza's National Guard on February 23, 1934. The members of the revolutionary group formed in Nicaragua in 1979 called themselves Sandinistas in his honor.

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Sandino, César Augusto

A Dictionary of World History | 2000 | Copyright

Sandino, César Augusto (1893–1934) Nicaraguan revolutionary general. A guerrilla leader, he tenaciously resisted US intervention in Nicaragua from 1926 to 1933. His anti-imperialist stance attracted wide support in Latin America. After US marines withdrew, Sandino became leader of a cooperative farming scheme. Seen as a liberalizing influence, he was assassinated by Anastasio SOMOZA's National Guard. The SANDINISTA LIBERATION FRONT, which defeated the Somoza dynasty in 1979, considered itself the spiritual heir of Sandino.

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