This is the homepage for documents relating to the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua, from which can be accessed the following:

   1.  guardia Newsletters, 74 in total, nos. 46-87 and 98-131 (1931-32), comprising over 1,400 pages of text — issued every 7-14 days, more or less, and usually overlapping with the previous & next 7-14 day period, for most of the 20 months from 30 April 1931 to 23 December 1932.  (Right:  members of the Guardia Nacional under Lt. Guillén with the decapitated heads of three Sandinistas at their feet, 24 June 1930, US National Archives)

   2.  "The Official List of Contacts of the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua"  — with a "contact" defined as a military encounter between opposing ground forces in which both sides discharged firearms (in a 34-MB PDF file via the kind courtesy of the Marine Corps Research Center, Quantico, VA).

   3.  Julian C. Smith, et al., "A Review of the Organizations & Operations of the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua (1927-1933)," unpublished manuscript, Marine Corps Research Center, 1933, in 351 + xi pages. 

   4.  Guardia Troop Distribution tables & Figures.   Dec. 1931 to Dec. 1932, in 13 PDF files covering 13 months in 256 pages, with many thanks to the Marine Corps Research Center for providing these files.

  5.  captain G. R. Weeks, U.S.M.C., "The Summary of the Organization, Training and Operations of the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua Troops of the Central Area under American Supervision, with Critical Analysis Thereof."  Marine Corps Schools, Marine Barracks, Quantico, VA, May 1940 (PDF file, 14 pgs, thanks again to the kind courtesy of the MCRC).

Forthcoming soon:

— Excerpts from Francisco Gaitan's unpublished multi-volume chronicle of the history of the Guardia Nacional, similar to but different than Smith, et al., above.

— Documents from 1925-26 on the first effort to create a "non-partisan constabulary" under Col. C. B. Carter, which failed but also created the template for the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua created by the Espino Negro Accord of 4 May 1927.

— Critiques of the Guardia in the Nicaraguan press, pamphlets, and other texts, including a series of articles by Solomón de la Selva in the Managua daily La Tribuna in 1929.

— A compendium of Sandino's views of the Guardia Nacional. 

— and more.   (right: Guardia Nacional corporal Juan Torres, #588, March 1928, US National Archives)

JEFE DIRECTORS OF THE GUARDIA NACIONAL DE NICARAGUA

COMMANDERS OF THE SECOND BRIGADE, U.S. MARINE CORPS

Source:  Maizie Johnson, comp., "Records of the United States Marine Corps, National Archives Inventory Record Group 127," National Archives & Records Administration, Washington D.C., 1970, pp. 43-44.