"A Roosevelt" (To Roosevelt) is a poem by Nicaraguan poet

Rubén Darío Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (18 January 1867 – 6 February 1916), known as Rubén Darío ( , ), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as '' modernismo'' (modernism) that flourished at the end of ...

. The poem was written by Darío in January 1904 in Málaga, Spain. It is a reaction to the involvement of the United States during the

Separation of Panama from Colombia The secession of Panama from Colombia was formalized on 3 November 1903, with the establishment of the Republic of Panama and the abolition of the Colombia-Costa Rica border. From the Independence of Panama from Spain in 1821, Panama had simu ...

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* Nicaraguan literature Cultural depictions of Theodore Roosevelt 1904 poems {{1900s-poem-stub