This page offers access to tables summarizing the geographic distribution of Guardia Nacional troops — right now, 13 PDF documents comprising 256 pages of text, covering the 13 months from December 1931 to December 1932.   These will soon be accompanied by additional reports covering the period from the Guardia's birth in May 1927 to its maturation under Somoza in the late 1930s.

     These serial lists provide much valuable information about the asymmetric geographic distribution of the military arm of the Nicaraguan state during its most dynamic and formative period.  Where the Guardia decided to deploy its limited resources says a great deal about where the US military and US policymakers — and after late 1932, the Guardia's Jefe Director Anastasio Somoza Garcia and his allies — saw greater & lesser threats, and shows the state's understanding of the geography of Nicaragua's military space and of actual & potential organized social unrest.  

     I thank Annette D. Amerman of the Marine Corps History Division for generously sending me digital copies of these 13 reports.