Ninety-one years ago today, on February 21, 1934 (January 8, 1934), the Nicaraguan national hero Sandino was murdered. Sandino On February 21, 1934, the Nicaraguan national hero Sandino was assassinated. Augustus Cesar Sandino was born in 1893 to a small manor owner's family. From 1921 to 1925, he worked as a mechanical warehouse management and mechanic in Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, and participated in the patriotic struggle of the Mexican people against the United States in 1923. Returned to China in February 1926. In December of the same year, the United States launched a military invasion in support of the Conservative regime of Diaz, sending 2,000 marines to land in Nicaragua. Sandinista organized local workers, patriotic youth, and some soldiers to start an anti-American struggle, and launched a guerrilla war based in the mountains of Las Segovias, which was supported by the people. In February 1927, the army was expanded to more than 300 men. In April 1927, he joined forces with the leader of the Liberal Party, Moncada, in Las Mercedes. In May, Moncada laid down his arms and negotiated with the United States to sign the Black Hawthorn Treaty. Sandinista issued a manifesto to exposing the American conspiracy and Moncada's betrayal. In September, he put forward the slogan of driving out all the American invaders; advocating that the land seized by the American monopoly capital should be allocated to farmers, agricultural cooperatives should be developed, and natural resources should be exploited; the army should be rectified, and the insurgents should not be paid wages and must not violate the discipline of peaceful residents. In 1928, US President Hoover offered to negotiate with Sandinista, but was rejected. By 1931, the insurgent army had grown to more than three men and controlled more than half of the country. In January 1933, American troops were forced to withdraw from Nicaragua. On February 21 of the following year, Sandinista was assassinated by murderers ordered by Somoza Garcia, commander of the Nicaraguan National Guard, while traveling to the capital to negotiate with the Liberal government. Sandinista was known as the "General of the Free Men".