This page offers a potpourri of
images found in Record Group 165, Entry 77,
Boxes 2650-2664, the Military Intelligence
Division for Nicaragua, 1922-1944. The
only other images of note from this record group
are the 30 photos taken by US Military Attaché
Major A. W. Bloor, published on the first three
pages of the USNA2 collection. (Right:
entrance to Archives II, photo by the author)
Photo USNA2-4.1.
Lt. Abelardo Cuadra, Guardia
Nacional, April 1935.
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This newspaper
photograph of Lt. Abelardo Cuadra was
found with a report dated 26 April 1935,
describing Lt. Cuadra's involvement in a
conspiracy to overthrow the Guardia's
Jefe Director Anastasio Somoza García.
Click on thumbnails for the full report, here:
. Cuadra, of course, was
the brother of Nicaraguan writer Manolo
Cuadra and the author of the critically
acclaimed memoir, Hombre del Caribe,
Sergio Ramírez, ed. San José: EDUCA,
1977.
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