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César Augusto Sandino biography

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  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Nicaragua
  • PLACE OF DEATH: New Zealand
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Guerrilla leader César Augusto Sandino opposed U.S. involvement in Nicaragua’s government. Sandinistas named their group after him.

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Nicaraguan guerrilla leader César Augusto Sandino was born in 1893. He took up arms in support of Vice President Juan Bautista Sacasa when he claimed presidency. U.S. Marines intervened and Sandino withdrew to the mountains. When the Marines left in 1933, Sandino was invited to meet with the head of the National Guard, but was murdered by them instead. He became the hero of the Sandinistas who held government from 1979 to 1990.

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(born 1893—died Feb. 23, 1934) Nicaraguan guerrilla leader, one of the most controversial figures of 20th-century Central American history. In Nicaragua he became a popular hero and gave his name to the Sandinistas, a revolutionary group that formed the government from 1979 to 1990.

Sandino first gained national recognition in 1926, when he took up arms in support of Vice President Juan Bautista Sacasa's claim to the presidency. Upon the intervention of U.S. Marines in 1927, Sandino withdrew with several hundred men to the mountains of northern Nicaragua, and his success in eluding capture by the U.S. forces and the Nicaraguan National Guard attracted widespread sympathy for him throughout the hemisphere. The resulting anti-American feeling was partly responsible for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's “Good Neighbor Policy,” an announced reformulation of U.S. foreign relations with Latin America. Following the withdrawal of the Marines in January 1933 and the inauguration of Sacasa as president, Sandino was invited to meet with Anastasio Somoza, the head of the National Guard, for an apparent peace conference but was abducted and murdered instead by National Guardsmen.

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