Mr. Kühl, who could pass for a senior Indiana Jones, took me through Darío’s rise to prominence. The house of his aunt, Bernarda Sarmiento de Ramierez, sits on Rubén Darío Street, though back then it was Calle Real. A sofa given to Darío from Manuel Estrada Cabrera, the Guatemalan dictator, sat in a main room, along with Darío’s diplomatic suits from missions to Argentina and Spain. DARÍO ONLY RETURNED to Nicaragua five times over the course of his career. Perhaps Darío’s most famous trip was on Nov. 23, 1907, when, now famous, he returned to Nicaragua aboard a steamer that called at the Pacific port of Corinto where a crowd greeted him.

Source: New York Times November 27, 2017 04:52 UTC