labour movement and became secretary to labor union leader Samuel Gompers. Between 1925 and 1929 he lived in Nicaragua and dedicated himself to the local syndicalism activism of laborioust tendency. He urged the affiliation of the Nicaraguan Worker's Federation (Federación Obrera Nicaragüense) to the Panamerican Worker's Central (Central Obrera Panamericana), which was affiliated to the American Federation of Labor. In this time, he married Carmela Castrillo and had two children, Carmelita de la Selva Castrillo (1925-1931) and Salomón de la Selva Castrillo (1927). His daughter Carmelita was born whilst de la Selva served as the director of newspaper Nicaragua Libre of the Nicaraguan Patriotic League and perished in the earthquake which shook Managua on March 31, 1931. By 1930 he had published articles supporting Augusto César Sandino published in San José, Costa Rica through different media such as the Diario de Costa Rica and Repertorio Americano of Joaquín García Monge. and in 1935 he moved to Mexico City, where he was able to influence Mexican politics; along with his brother Rogelio de la Selva, he was advisor to President Miguel Alemán Valdés. In 1933, a son of de la Selva's, Juan, is born in Panama to actress Betty Schroeder. Whilst in France, as a Nicaraguan ambassador for the Government of President Luis Anastasio Somoza, he died on February 5, 1959, in Paris. Works Poetry Tropical Town and Other Poems (1918) A Soldier Sings (1919) El soldado desconocido (1922) Evocación de Horacio, Canto a Mérida de Yucatán en la celebración de sus Juegos Florales (1947) La ilustre familia (195) Canto a la Independencia de México (1955) Evocación de Píndaro (1957) Acolmixtli Netzahualcóyotl (1958) Novels La guerra de Sandino o el pueblo desnudo, written in 1935, posthumously published in 1985. Narciso, a history of Nicaragua (1930) References External links 20th-century Nicaraguan poets Nicaraguan male poets Nicaraguan journalists Williams College alumni 1959 deaths 1893 births Ambassadors of Nicaragua to France 20th-century male writers 20th-century journalists