Pioneering Transnational Solidarity in the Americas: The Movement in Support of Augusto C. Sandino 1927–1934

Abstract

The movement in solidarity with the national liberation struggle led by Augusto C. Sandino in Nicaragua between 1927 and 1933 was the first modern, networked anti-imperialist campaign in Latin America but has only recently begun to attract scholarly attention. This article identifies some of the key protagonists in the campaign around Sandino and discusses the spaces which they occupied. The solidarity activists employed a variety of devices to spread their message –including literary-political magazines, political parties and supra-national political and socio-cultural organizations, some of which were linked to the Comintern. The article also explores the repertoire of discourses that shaped solidarity action and thinking. Many of these came from a revitalized antiimperialism as well as from Indolatino thought that drew on the work of such diverse actors as José Vasconcelos as well as Sandino himself. The development of a richer and more complex sense of Latin American identity underpinned these new transnational networking practices and discourses. In turn these discourses were also the core of a new form of radical transnationalism that was anchored in expressions of solidarity with the struggles of other Latin Americans.

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