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3 de mallo de 1930

Senor Don V

   En con seaccen de lo bergonzara propanda que en contra del ejercito autonomia la pretende lebandan el gobernador yanqui de nicaragua Jose Maria Moncada presienobnos desacreditar nosiendonos apareser como conserbadores me permito dirigirme abosotros rrefutando enerjicamente tal perfidia el ejercito defensor de la autonomia ne nicaraguarua que opera en las segobias i chinandega i [follows English translation of difficult to decipher original letter:] and which will operate pretty soon through all the country, is composed of genuine liberals who have known how to support the true principles of the Liberal Party, principles which were violated by the aforesaid Moncada, desertor and traitor who made a secret agreemnt with the invaders of our country, so committing a treason against the Constitutionalist cause which was represented by Doctor Juan Bautista Sacasa. Dr. Sacasa in giving Moncada the representation of the Constitutionalist Army did not confer in him the rights for selling the arms, and if it is true that Dr. Sacasa and the other Jefes kept silence when Moncada did this was not on account that they agreed with, but they were hopeless with the fight and they were not much confidence in the heroic gesture of rebellion taken off by General Augusto C. Sandino,

   [p. 2] who does not sell his arms and who protests emphatically against the intervention of the Yankee which is a terrible attempt against the sovereignty of Nicaragua and it can be said that is against all Central America. The invaders in conjunction with Diaz and Chamorro, when they saw that the victorious army of the liberal party was at the suburbs of Managua, and as they knew that Moncada had ever wanted to be president of the country, they offered him through the delivery of the arms and the amount of $200,000 besides to get him up to the Presidency, but with the condition that he, Moncada, as representative of the Liberal party should accept all the contracts made out between the Yankees and the Conservative administrations of Nicaragua. Moncada was willingly to accept and proceed to get the rest of the Jefes, telling them that it should be better to agree with the Yankees as the people never could understand whatever they did and that the people never gave thanks for any action in their favor, that the duty of everyone was to get money in the way it can be done. ...........

   [p. 3:  poem]   It is the Brave Sandino a standard of dignity, who fights against the terible yankee in favor of the liberty. While the coward Government is defending the invaders, he--Sandino, with new rifles is defeating them. Also some men who have horns, went to the elections and lot be marked, but those who understand their duty come to us and go to defend their honor. Traitors have been all the time well known, but at present they are pretty clear about, and they will follow Sandino. The people say the Hoover will come down in a battleship, in order to get all his cattle which will be branded with his iron mark. 

[English translation by the Guardia at right:] 

Photograph of Remigia Blandón (a scan of a photocopy of the original photo; the original will be scanned during my next visit to the National Archives.)  Written on the back:  "un recuerdo para Miguel Angel Blandón".