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Statement of GN agent & Miskitu Indian R. Rodríguez on EDSN on lower Río Coco
(jan 1932)
 
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Statement of Guardia agent & Miskitu Indian Ramón Rodríguez on EDSN on lower Río Coco

Critical introduction forthcoming.

 

 

 

 

DEPARTMENT OF NORTHERN BLUEFIELDS
GUARDIA NACIONAL DE NICARAGUA
DISTRICT OF KISALAYA
KISALAYA, NIC.

3 January, 1932.

Statement of Ramon Rodriguez, a resident of Wasla, sent by the Guardia Nacional on a mission of espionage and in search for Company animals taken by bandits from Louisiana Farm.

“When I arrived at Walpa Tanta, two bends below Waspuk, I found two company mules in the potrero of one of the bandits by the name of Lezandro Bukbuk. I left them there and proceeded upriver to Waspuk mouth. I found three more mules in the potrero of Martin Alvarado. I returned down river to build a raft on which to bring the mules down to Kisalaya. I was captured by a bandit patrol who tied me up and took me to Kring Kring, two small villages above Waspuk mouth where the main group of bandits were stationed. When I arrived there the bandits accused me of being a Guardia Spy and was intending to shoot me until a friend of mine, also a bandit, told them not to do so as he knew me as a good man. His name is Joaquin Gonzalez. I was compelled for fifteen days to assist them in driving cattle up river from Swabin, six bends down river from Waspuk. They took the cattle to Kring Kring but I escaped while the cattle were in a large group of jungle. I went from there to Moko-rin, Honduras, from which place I made my way here.
Replica Watches
Colonel Gonzalez told me that they (the bandits) were building four large boats in the bushes near Kring Kring to transport a large group to the Wanks Bar. The headquarters of the bandits is at Kipla Pini, at present under the command of General Jose Cubano. Cubano sent an order down to Gonzalez to execute me at once but he (Gonzales) did not carry it out. He also stated to execute any one coming up from below Kisalaya river.

General Caravas is in command of fifty bandits at Andres-tarra, above Kipla Pini, consisting of about ten or twelve houses. The bandits live on the Nicaraguan side of the river and close to it.
Rolex Explorer II Replica
General Chavaria with another fifty men is in command at Ritey, a village above Kipla Pini, an Indian settlement of about ten houses on the Nicaraguan side of the river.

I heard from the bandits that General Pedrone Altamirano [Pedrón] will march with four hundred men towards Puerto Cabezas from the Pis Pis district and the four commands up river will attack Kisalaya and proceed down river to the bar (Cabo Gracios).

All the Jefes and smaller Jefes are dressed in khaki clothing. When the planes fly over they hide in the houses and under brush.

There is a creek below Kring Kring where there are a large number of boats hidden. These boats are hidden in the thick under-brush on the banks.

Pedrone was supposed to begin his move shortly after New Years towards Puerto Cabezas. Jose Cubano will come down with all commands up river to attack Kisalaya and then go to Cabo Gracios.

/s/  Ramon Rodriguez

M32.01.03

Transcribed by Pleet Initiative-funded Lebanon Valley College student-researcher Nicholas J. Quadrini.

 

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