... connected to Augusto Sandino, the man from who the Sandinistas took their name. He was a Nicaraguan nationalist who was the leader of a patriotic guerrilla campaign to remove the United States armed forces from Nicaragua and set up an independent Nicaraguan state instead of an American puppet regime. To summarise briefly, Sandino continued his guerrilla campaign after the U.S. forces had left, until the head of the U.S.-trained National Guard, Anastasio Somoza Garcia, had him shot as he was leaving the Presidential palace after peace talks. Thus Nicaragua gained a martyr as well as a revolutionary hero. Cuba also has a revolutionary tradition, with its figurehead being Jose Marti, "an eloquent revolutionary poet-lawyer" (Skidmore & Smith,1992:p254). Marti is still revered as an instrumental figure in the struggle to throw off the Spanish yoke and gain independence. These two revolutionary figures were drawn on by both groups of successful. Indeed ...

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