Manolo Cuadra

Manuel Antonio Cuadra Vega, known as Manolo Cuadra, was born in Malacatoya, near Granada, on 9 August 1907. Enlisted in 1932 in the newly formed National Guard, he fought in the Segovias against Sandino's partisans, left the army in 1935, became a journalist and broke with his friends of the avant-garde to oppose Somoza from the left. The dictator banished him in 1937 to Little Corn Island, in the Caribbean, then had him imprisoned, placed under house arrest and exiled several times, to El Salvador and Costa Rica. He died in Managua on 14 November 1957.

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• NovelAlmidónManolo Cuadra · 1945not translated into EnglishLiterature