Word: anastasios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some were plain mercenaries, but they all had a common object: the overthrow of Caribbean dictators. Around the Caribbean circuit, in Havana, in Caracas, bustling agents were collecting arms, haggling for battle-weary aircraft, signing up an occasional recruit. The Legion's first target: Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio Somoza...
Angry Ambassador Shaw charged over to Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza's palace to demand that the press be scolded for such rudeness. Last week, gossips in Managua (and Washington, too) were telling how, when Shaw left, Somoza had leaned back in his chair and roared with laughter. "Well," boomed Tacho, "I guess we won't have a free press in Nicaragua any more. The U.S. ambassador won't permit...
...general sailed his flat-brimmed, Pershing-style khaki campaign hat on to a table, and sagged into a chintz-covered chair. Scowling across the parlor of his Managua, hilltop mansion, Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza grumbled: "I did everything I could to prevent what is coming, but there's no way to keep the peace in Central America. For years Nicaragua's Guardia National has stood like a Chinese wall in Central America, stopping trouble from going north and south. God knows I'm a patient man, but there is nothing...
...plans to visit the U.S. after his inauguration in November, turned up in Guatemala City. He and Guatemala's President Juan José Arévalo found a mutual bond in their distaste for the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo and Nicaragua's Anastasio...
...That Arévalo. He hates me. I don't know why. Lord, he has troubles of his own in Guatemala-why bother to stick his nose into Nicaragua?" Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, who is proud of his English, paused abruptly and jabbed a fat finger into the stuffed Guatemalan quetzal that hung by his desk. "The quetzal-symbol of liberty or death to the Guatemalans," he snickered. "There are lots of tame ones in the Bronx...