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After brokering a Liberal-Conservative settlement, US government officials and military commanders in Nicaragua only vaguely grasped the obstacles they would face in their efforts to maintain law and order, and train a new guardia. The government and rebel armies had voluntarily disbanded, and it sees that at the most the marines could expect scattered outbreaks of endemic banditry. From a military standpoint, noted Secretary of the Mavy Curtis Wilbur, the disarmament was almost complete. What guns remained, were held illegally by the ignorant, irresponsible, and criminal. As for Augusto Sandino, this was not the first time he was consigned to ignominity. A fugitive from justice, Wilbur stated, holed up not more than 200 of the worst element in the revolutionary army. (Ivan Musicant, The Banana Wars, (Macmillan: New York, NY, 1990), 302).
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 07:35:25 +0000

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