Sandino/Murals (Final Nica Instalment)
The guerrilla leader and Nicaraguan hero, Augusto César Sandino (1895-1934) is well remembered for his brave efforts to fight off the US military presence, the US trained Guardia Nacional (National Guard) and topple the US installed dictatorship of the Somoza bloodline. Although he was eventually killed, 50 years after his death a movement that resurrected his name and his ideology, Frente Sandino para la Liberación Nacional (Sandino National Liberation Front) or the FSLN, was able to over take Somoza in ’79 and retain power until 1990. Present day Nicaragua is ruled by a right leaning government of the PLC, Partido Liberal Constitucionalista (Liberal Constitutional Party). Presidential elections take place November of this year.
As a revered national hero of Nigaragua’s left, many instances of the man can be seen scattered throughout the left leaning municipalities. Here are a few.
Remember the Iran-Contra scandel? Well I don’t, but I’ve read up on it. But fear from Mother Russia and “Cuban-Style Socialism” played a part and the famous National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17). No need to go into details, most of you remember it better and know it better than I. Here is a famous picture located in the Casa de La Cultura in León.
Nicaragua is famous for it’s murals, they literally paint the country, although I did not see all of Nicaragua, in the places I did visit showed a wide array of different murals each telling its’ own story. The following murals caught my attention in that they tell a story using apocalyptic and folklore imagery one specifically of El Padre sin Cabeza (The Headless Priest) that depicts the story of murdered priest who is said to roam the streets of León at night.
Your affectionate Volunteer,
SCRUTAPE
As a revered national hero of Nigaragua’s left, many instances of the man can be seen scattered throughout the left leaning municipalities. Here are a few.
Remember the Iran-Contra scandel? Well I don’t, but I’ve read up on it. But fear from Mother Russia and “Cuban-Style Socialism” played a part and the famous National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17). No need to go into details, most of you remember it better and know it better than I. Here is a famous picture located in the Casa de La Cultura in León.
Nicaragua is famous for it’s murals, they literally paint the country, although I did not see all of Nicaragua, in the places I did visit showed a wide array of different murals each telling its’ own story. The following murals caught my attention in that they tell a story using apocalyptic and folklore imagery one specifically of El Padre sin Cabeza (The Headless Priest) that depicts the story of murdered priest who is said to roam the streets of León at night.
Your affectionate Volunteer,
SCRUTAPE
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