Colin Matthes

Colin Matthes
Sandino (black paper version)
$27

This print of Sandino is based on an illustration I completed for an upcoming Justseeds book published by Microcosm Publishing.

A little bit about Sandino:
Sandino joined liberal rebels fighting the US Marine protected government of Nicaragua. After being offered high positions in the government many liberal generals acquiesced to the occupation of US forces, but Sandino did not. For 6 years Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Augusto Cesar Sandino successfully defied the US Marines, compelling the United States to terminate its decades-long military occupation of Nicaragua. Sandino drafted a plan, titled “realizing Bolivar’s Supreme Dream” that aimed to ally Latin American countries and it included a Latin American court to resolve disputes and warn the US against interventions, demanded the withdrawal of all US troops, and it planned to buy out all US capital investments and forbid future ones. In life and in death, Sandino became a hero throughout much of Latin America and he became a symbol of resistance to U.S. domination.

2 color-screenprint
25"x19"
acid free 100% recycled cover weight paper
signed/numbered edition of 40