This page houses two documents kindly sent by Martha Hernández-Martínez, originally from Jinotega, who found this photograph and a telegram among her grandfather's papers.  A more detailed, first-hand narrative by Martha Hernandez is forthcoming.  Meantime the photo and telegram are presented below.

      The telegram is dated 17 June 1933.  It tells us that Sandino arrived in San Rafael del Norte on 17 June 1933 and departed soon after for Los Embocaderos.   June 17 was a couple of months after Sandino's weeks-long interview with journalist José Román along the Río Coco (March 1933).  This telegram marks his return from Managua, where he had flown to engage in peace talks with President Juan B. Sacasa.  He was probably heading to the EDSN Cuartel General at "El Chipotón," the maze of jungle camps deep in the interior, northeast of Los Embocaderos in the Bocay Valley.

Foto Readers-8.1.   Hombre Desconocido / Unknown Man, Jinotega, ca. 1933.   Foto Readers-8.2.  Telegrama sobre Sandino, Junio de 1933.  "Depositado en San Rafael del Norte a las 11 am del 17 de Junio de 1933 Recibido en Jinotega a las 12 m del 17 de Junio de 1933 Sandino salió para la montaña con dirección al embocaderos. agen Pastal I de Berrios"