Señor Manuel Echeverría, San Albino.

Dear Friend and Companion:

It pleases me to inform you that the agent of police of San Fernando, Colonel Rufo Marín, captured two machos with all equipment. They said they were coming to present themselves to Sandino because they had been traitors to the US forces and to date we do not know their ends because the General has not come. Friend, I beg you to send me the fuse and the pin to make the hole in the bombs, also the bugle. For the moment there is nothing new but I will share it with you when there is.

Your friend salutes you with tenderness.

/s/ Francisco Estrada, Jefe Político of the Department of Nueva Segovia, Ciudad Sandino.