Letter to the Rulers of America and Plan for the Realization of Bolivar’s Supreme Dream

Abstract

Nicaraguan Augusto C. Sandino was one of the most important anti-imperialist leaders of the 20th century. From 1926 he led a campaign against the American presence in his country until 1933, when he succeeded in expelling the Marines from it. His political thought, exposed in a fragmentary way in hundreds of letters, communiqués, speeches, war reports, etc., has an anti-imperialist matrix that revolves around the need for unity of the “Latin American Nationality” to defeat the Northern enemy. This is the main meaning of the two documents collected here: to urge Latin American rulers to reject the Monroe doctrine, to organize politically, to integrate as a political community in the wake of Simón Bolívar, and to defend Latin American sovereignty and independence.