Augusto Cesar Sandino was a nicaraguan revolutionary remembered by being the leader of the resistance to the US occupation of Nicaragua in the first half of the 20th century.
He was born in Niquinohomo, department of Masaya, on May 18, 1895. He was the son of Gregorio Sandino, a wealthy coffee farmer, and Margarita Calderón, an indigenous servant who worked on his father's plantation.
In 1921 Sandino was forced to leave the country after shooting Dagoberto Rivas, the son of a prominent conservative from the town. During his stay in Mexico, Sandino was linked with leaders of various unionist, worker, socialist, anarchist and freemason groups.
In 1925, after 13 years of US occupation in Nicaragua, the invading army withdrew its troops. In October of that year, the military coup of General Emiliano Chamorro against President Carlos José Solórzano occurred. North American troops land again at Bluefields. Sandino, upon learning of the beginning of the Constitutionalist War, decided to return to Nicaragua, where he arrived on June 1.
"In view of the abuses of North America in Nicaragua, I left Tampico, Mexico, on May 18, 1926, to join the Constitutionalist Army of Nicaragua, which was fighting against the regime imposed by the Yankee bankers in our Republic."
On October 26, 1926, together with workers from the San Albino mines, he took up arms, joining the constitutional cause. He organized his combatants and leads an attack against the conservative barracks in the town of El Jícaro on November 2, 1926. After this success in combat, Sandino was recognized by the liberal military leaders for which he is appointed General-in-Chief of the Army of Las Segovias, where he establishes his base of operations.
Sandino's war against the US Army
With just 30 men, Sandino begins a national war against the American invaders and the surrendering government of José María Moncada. On September 2, 1927, the Defense Army of the National Sovereignty of Nicaragua was constituted.
"Dynamics of Nicaragua"
After intense fighting and without being able to defeat him, the US government of Herbert C, Hoover, ordered the withdrawal of the troops deployed in Nicaragua. With the election of Franklin D. Roosvelt, peace negotiations began with the US government. Sandino sent the new liberal president, Juan Bautista Sacasa, a peace proposal, which was accepted. On February 2, 1933, the war officially ends.
Sandino's murder
On February 21, 1934, after attending a dinner in La Loma (Presidential Palace), together with the writer Sofonías Salvatierra (Sacasa's Minister of Agriculture) and his lieutenants, Generals Francisco Estrada and Juan Pablo Umanzor, invited by Juan Bautista Sacasa , he is detained by Major Lisandro Delgadillo, who led them to the El Hormiguero prison.
The three generals Sandino, Estrada and Umanzor were assassinated at eleven o'clock at night by troops from the battalion that guarded them. Two years later, Anastasio Somoza took the reins of Nicaragua, overthrowing President Sacasa, who was his in-law uncle. Somoza claimed that he had received orders from US Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane to kill Sandino.
Legacy
The struggle for Freedom and sovereignty represented by Augusto Sandino has transcended borders, becoming a symbol of and flag of the peoples who fight against oppression and the domination of external forces. Sandino's ideas and thoughts are remembered in Nicaragua and the world:
"My greatest honor is to emerge from the bosom of the oppressed, who are the soul and nerve of the race."
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To my knowledge there is only one group of people who have ever outright stolen a god, and its the Romans. Other people are inspired by other religion, adopt parts of other religions, convert to other religions, etc. The Romans were the first, and only as far as I know, to physically run off with one.
not sure what you're referring to exactly, but if its about temple looting i can think of a few
No I'm talking about taking the embodiment of magna mater from pergamon. The Sibyline oracle declared that if they had her in Rome they could defeat Carthage, so they went to Pergamon and asked them to hand the god over.
so not just knicking it but also worshipping it afterwards? they did do that in christian saint cults but those folks insist their lesser deities aren't 'gods'.
but i feel like this sort of shenanigan couldn't be a one-off in the ancient world with all the imperial cults that tried to synthesize diverse subject peoples religions
They asked the Pergamonese(?) to physically hand over the divinity, took the divinity back to Rome, built a temple around it, had prominent Roman figures "welcome" her to the city, and then openly retconned her to have always been a Roman god.
I'm sure something similar happened elsewhere. But I can't think of anything nearly as blatant.
works a little better than Pergamonian but both should be valid. i mean its an ancient ruin we could make it Pergamonish who can stop us
i'm thinking especially about hellenistic city founding, it wasn't always on a new site but it's kind of similar to rename & reseat the traditional divinity in the conquering cultural expression.
To me it feels a bit different when the Greeks went to a place and saw a natural feature or a shrine and either rededicated the place to Hestia or declared that actually it had always been holy to Apollo the original inhabitants had just worshipped him under a different name/wrong, compared to the Romans telling the Pergish "This is our god now. She's a Roman god. Her temple is in Rome, that's where she is worshipped now. Hand over the shrine".
One is taking the temple or the land, the other is taking the divinity itself. I suppose its not a huge distinction to most, but I just find the blatant nature of it amusing
Does the CIA and the Dalai Lama count?
Also I'm fairly certain this happened a bunch of times during the colonial era. Like didn't Sapa Inka get kidnapped by the Spanish at some point?
It's kind of worse with the Sapa Inka. They captured him, killed him and then appointed his replacement and kept appointing the replacements until the official end of the original inca state. It's not so much theft as it's just straight up destruction of a religious institution.
The Penchen/Dalai Lama debaucle is actually an interesting point there. Especially with the contrasting appointments