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Pact of Espino Negro
Pact of Espino Negro (1927) was an agreement developed by the United States to resolve the 1926-1927 civil war in Nicaragua.
Background.
In 1924, moderate conservative Carlos Solórzano was elected president of Nicaragua. Juan Bautista Sacasa, who had served as Vice-President under overthrown President Jose Santos Zelaya, served as his Vice President. Believing the Nicaraguan government was stable, the United States Marines agreed to end its 13 year presence in the country and withdrew from Nicaragua in August 1925
rebel forces agreed to accept the pact, Saracas refused to sign the agreement and left the country. A rebel liberal group under the leadership of Augusto César Sandino also refused to sign the Pact of Espino Negro. Sandino would afterwards state an undeclared guerrilla war against the United States Marines and the Nicaragua National Guard.
In January 1933, the United States - now in the midst of The Great Depression and anxious to end involvement in Nicaragua's military affairs after seeing the casualties inflicted by Sandino's army - agreed to with withdraw