General Manuel Echeverría:

I am sending you this letter with a paper that came to us from Honduras and I want you to take this opportunity to write something for that Republic for which I commission you. I will type our organization so that when it is done it may be signed by all and be published over there. Make the answer and let that man know that I have noted in a book everything that happens in our column from the first day we rose up in arms and thus everything that our enemies say against us will be without strength. And if he can, let him come or any other newspaper man, come and we will give him a copy.

There are communications that may serve for history and other things that are impressive, the same as many things that will make them laugh. I inform you that Moncada has no power among the humble populace and only the drunkards accompany him, and Colonel Rivera of Santa Cruz tells me that many want us to declare our candidacy because all the populace of the country is with us. We cannot do that now, but naturally it fills us with satisfaction to have the populace recognize who is their friend and who is their enemy.

Patria y Libertad

/s/ A. C. Sandino