"Do you ever think about things that you do think about?" (Inherit the Wind)
The procession began about twenty minutes late, at around 2:30 pm, as hardly anything in Nicaragua ever starts on time. It was the fifth day of the novena, the nine day period preceding the feast of Santiago Apóstol in Jinotepe. It was…
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On the afternoon of Sunday, July 9, Lieutenant Roberto Brenes and Lieutenant Colonel Ricardo Lau, two officers in Somoza’s Guardia Nacional, ordered their troops to open fire upon student protesters marching in Jinotepe, Carazo. The Guardias shot four people dead….
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