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Known Documents
1 July 1927 Manifesto. Sandino proclaims his "mystical link" with the Indian race.

Manifiesto Luz y Verdad (14 February 1931). Sandino prophesised the End of the World and announces that Nicaragua has been chosen by God to judge the unjust of the earth.

Letter to Pedro Altamirano (2 January 1930). Sandino proclaims to be Divine Incarnation.

Unknown Documents
Letter to Francisco Vera (23 April 1930). Sandino reports his altercation with Farabundo Martí to the EMECU.

Letter to Pedro Altamirano (3 February 1931). Sandino explains to Pedrón that he and his men have been with Sandino in previous lives and reiterates his Divine nature.

Letter to Abraham Rivera (February 1930). Sandino explains that the spirits of great figures now inhabit the men in his peasant army.

Letter to Abraham Rivera (22 February 1931). Sandino explains his vision and understanding of the nature of the universe.

Letter to José Hilario Chavarría (12 May 1930). Sandino explains the development and meaning of human history from Creation. He discusses the cosmic origin of the Liberal and the Conservative parties. He reaffirms his prophetic mission.

Letter from Alemán Bolaños to Sandino (30 December 1930). Bolaños counsels Sandino to hang people in public squares, Idiáquez counsels to stop the killings. (Includes original image).

Letter to Gastón Lafarga, Secretary General of the Continental Committee of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas (4 February 1930). Sandino accepts to go on an European tour in exchange for making statements condemning the Mexican Government's foreign policy.

Accounting Summary: Ledger of donations and loans to Sandino while in Mexico. (Includes original image).

Letter to Francisco Vera, Secratery of the Provincial Cátedra No. 40 (23 April 1930). Sandino reports on his break up with Farabundo Martí, giving us evidence that the School may have ordered the separation.

Letter of Jaime Schlittler to Augusto Sandino (24 February 1932). Schlittler, Regional Director of the EMECU, replies to Sandino regarding the guerrilla's request to send Francisco Vera to proselytise the Nicaraguan peasants in Sandino's commune. (Includes original image).

Letter of Francisco Vera to Jaime Schlittler (12 February 1932). Vera writes to Schlittler to justify his decision not to accept Sandino's invitation to go to Nicaragua to help with the work of the Magnetic Spiritualist School in the Segovian commune.(Includes original image).

Other Documents
The following two letters between seemingly outside figures offer an interesting insight into the relationship between Sandino and Farabundo Martí.

Letter of P. J. Zepeda to Enrique Rivera Bertrán, 6 June 1930.

Letter of Enrique Rivera Bertrán' to P. J. Zepeda, 9 June 1930.

 Augusto "César" Sandino: 
Messiah of Light and Truth
by Marco Navarro-Genie