Word: anastasio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leading the fighting was the small but deadly Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which has been waging a battle against the entrenched regime of President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle, 52. Last month, in a daring attack on Managua's National Palace, the Sandinistas took 1,500 hostages and forced Tacho to ransom them back for $500,000 in cash and the release of 59 political prisoners. Next, the well-armed Marxist guerrillas staged a pitched battle against Somoza's National Guard in the coffee and cattle town of Matagalpa. Finally the Sandinistas raised the stakes to civil...
...since the country had been under military control since the guerrilla war began six years ago. In Iran the Shah's declaration brought a clampdown on civil liberties and empowered the army to arrest without charges and to invade homes without warrants. In Nicaragua martial law merely underscored Anastasio Somoza's desperate situation. Said a Managua businessman: "Martial law here is simply a license to kill...
MANAGUA, Nic.--President Anastasio Somoza used troops, tanks, and warplanes to quell the latest and bloodiest uprising against his rule, but the rebellion against him appears far from over...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Rebels barricaded streets in Esteli yesterday as government troops attempted to capture what they called the last stronghold of guerillas opposed to President Anastasio Somoza...
Earlier, the guard, Nicaragua's army of 7500, recaptured the towns of Masaya, Leon, Chinandega and Penas Blancas, defeating guerrillas opposed to the authoritarian government of President Anastasio Somoza...