About the Author

Humberto Gómez Sequeira-HuGóS was born on March 12, 1949, in Granada, Nicaragua, under the military dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza García, the so-called “Tacho,” and his Colonialist Catholic Church (CCC).

“Tacho” was the fictitious general, “Made in USA,” who was appointed by the Hoover Administration as Chief Director of the Nicaraguan National Guard (NG) that the United States Marine Corps (USMC) had trained to relieve them as the occupying force of Nicaragua. The USMC was defeated by the Army for the Defense of the National Sovereignty of Nicaragua in the national liberation war that ended in 1933.

The CCC was the confessor of “Tacho” and chaplain of the NG. The alliance between

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Catholicism, the cross, and “Somocismo,” the M1 Garand, was the force that created the atmosphere of obscurantism and fear in which the author's childhood happened in the impoverished La Otra Banda neighborhood of Granada, Nicaragua, like a sensible event, a heliotrope of fragile imagination, whipped by a storm of ignorance and violence.

HuGóS graduated, cum laude, as a Bachelor of Science, Letters, and Philosophy at the Colegio Salesiano San Juan Bosco in Granada, Nicaragua, in 1968. In the United States of America (USA), he studied English and political science at Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, California, where he achieved academic status as a member of the Dean’s Honor Roll in the fall of 1975.

The author is a poet, essayist, and digital photography artist. His first collection of poems, entitled In Transition to Poetry, was published in the city of Los Angeles, California, USA, in 1974. Some of the poems contained in that collection are a reflection of the author's reaction to the revolution in Nicaragua and the pain of the victims of the military dictatorship of the fictitious general,

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“Made in USA,” Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the so-called “Tachito.”

For his poetry work, the author received the following awards:

• A certificate of Excellence in Poetry, awarded by Teresinka Pereira, director of the International Poetry Society at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, USA.

• First Place in Poetry, awarded by Lillian Walsh, editor of For Poets Only, a poetry magazine published in Jackson Heights, New York, USA.

HuGóS’ poems have appeared in La Prensa Literaria of Managua, Nicaragua, and magazines, such as Free Venice Beachhead of Venice, California, USA, Poetalk of Berkeley, California, USA, The Plowman of Whitby, Ontario, Canada, and Estrella del Sur of Paterna, Valencia, Spain.

He has self-published his books on Amazon and Google. His essays can be read on Issuu and Scribd. And his digital photographic artwork can be seen at DeviantArt.