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     This is the homepage for newspapers, magazines & periodicals published in Nicaragua, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, elsewhere in Central & Latin America, the USA, and Europe that treat or provide context for the Sandino rebellion.

   At present these pages offer access to 281 relevant news stories in the Managua daily Diario Moderno (June 7—Dec. 29, 1927, in 287 JPEG images), and 200 relevant stories in the Managua daily La Tribuna (Jan.-Feb. 1929, in 190 JPEG images).

   Additional collections-in-progress will soon be accessible via the Master Inventory of Newspapers & Periodicals, below:

1.  NICARAGUAN NEWSPAPERS & PERIODICALS

La Noticia  (Managua)

1926:  15 August—31 December (notes from originals, Library of Congress)

1928:  January—May & November—December  (627 digital photos from HNMC)

 

Diario Moderno  (Managua)

1927:  7 June—23 September  (148 JPEG files)

1927:  24 September—29 December  (139 JPEG files)

 

El Comercio  (Managua)

1929:  July—December  (280 digital photos from HNMC)

 

La Tribuna  (Managua)

1929:  January—October  (digitized from the originals, Library of Congress; 190 JPEG files covering January & February)

 

El Centroamericano  (León)

1922—1934  (notes from microfilm, Library of Congress)

 

La Prensa  (Managua)

1933—1934:  December 1933—March 1934  (microfilm, Library of Congress)

2.  MEXICAN NEWSPAPERS & PERIODICALS

El Libertador & El Machete, Ciudad de México 

1928—1931 (English translations of select articles by US Military Intelligence Division)

El Excelsiór — El Nacional — El Universal — El Universal Gráfico — El Gráfico — La Tribuna, Ciudad de México 

El Dictamen, Veracruz

 

 

 

3.  HONDURAN NEWSPAPERS & PERIODICALS

La Tribuna — La Gaceta — El Cronista — El Sol — El Pueblo, Tegucigalpa 

1928—1931 (English translations of select articles by US Military Intelligence Division) 

 

 

 

4.  OTHER LATIN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS & PERIODICALS

Diario Latino, San Salvador — Diario del Salvador, San Salvador — La Tribuna, San José — El Imparcial, Ciudad de Guatemala

1928—1931 (English translations of select articles by US Military Intelligence Division) 

 

 

5.  NORTH AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS & PERIODICALS

 

The Washington Star — Washington Post —The New York Times — New York Tribune —New York Evening Post  — Boston Transcript — Baltimore Sun — Chicago Daily News — St. Louis Post-Dispatch — New Orleans Picayune — Los Angeles Times — The People's Daily — & more

1926-1934 — articles on Nicaragua

 

6.  EUROPEAN & OTHER NEWSPAPERS & PERIODICALS

Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (Workers Pictorial Newspaper, Berlin), ca. October 1928.  Federico Bach, "Bei dem Rebellengeneral Sandino"  — see TOP 100, PAGE 20.

Estampa Revista Gráfica (Madrid, España), año 4 (num. 6), 7 de Marzo de 1931.    Mario Aguilar, "Un Día en el Campamento del General Sandino".   PDF FILE (16 MB) or in three jpeg files:  P. 1  —  P. 2  —  P. 3.  Many thanks to Scott Brennan for sending me this hitherto unknown & apparently lost publication; for a more extensve discussion, see TOP 100, PAGE 66.

 

 

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