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::Sounds a bit like what Peace Walker gave. Any indications that Sandino was a Communist or Socialist, though? Because if he wasn't, then I don't think the Sandinistas should be fit to use his name for their activities, since it's unlikely Sandino would have approved of Marxism being placed in Nicaragua and if anything would most likely have sided with America. That's assuming he wasn't either a Communist or a Socialist. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 10:45, 23 August 2016 (EDT)
::Sounds a bit like what Peace Walker gave. Any indications that Sandino was a Communist or Socialist, though? Because if he wasn't, then I don't think the Sandinistas should be fit to use his name for their activities, since it's unlikely Sandino would have approved of Marxism being placed in Nicaragua and if anything would most likely have sided with America. That's assuming he wasn't either a Communist or a Socialist. [[User:Pokeria1|Pokeria1]] ([[User talk:Pokeria1|talk]]) 10:45, 23 August 2016 (EDT)
:::Sandino's politics were complicated. When he was in Mexico, he had been influenced by anarchism, anarcho-communism and the indigenous movement. During his revolution, he did take money from Communist groups, but that was probably less ideological on his part and more a matter of "Hey, we need money, and they're giving it.", but that stopped in the late '20s, after the Communists changed their policy and stopped supporting non-Communist groups. He also got involved in both the Spiritualist movement and Seventh Day Adventism, and seemed to think that he had a divine mission to liberate Nicaragua from American control.
:::So, there are no indications that Sandino was a Marxist, although some that he was an anarcho-syndicalist (He had founded a commune on the Mosquito Coast), and I don't know what he would have thought about the Sandinistas appropriating his name and image. I doubt he would have sided with America during the 70s and 80s. He hated Somoza and he hated the US government for their actions in Nicaragua.
::: I will say you see that a lot...groups appropriating historical figures to support their cause. Napoleon did it with Charlemagne, the modern Scottish nationalists do it with William Wallace, American Communists did it in the 1930s with Abraham Lincoln, the modern Tea Party movement does it with the Sons of Liberty. It's the whole, "Hey, this historical person or group is well loved, so if we manage to associate them with our movement, that'll make people like us better.--[[User:Whizkid|Whizkid]] ([[User talk:Whizkid|talk]]) 20:55, 24 August 2016 (EDT)