Word: anastasios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come to the end of a policy. At Bogotá, the American nations had agreed to junk the old practice of not recognizing dictatorial or unpopular governments. Last week the U.S. (and Colombia) recognized the sovereign state of Nicaragua, ruled over by smirking, slippery Dictator Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza...
Those projects were to smash three dictators: Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and Honduras' Dictator Tiburcio Carías. The battle-hardened exiles in Costa Rica had formed a "junta for the liberation of the Caribbean." Said bald old Dominican Juan Rodriguez Garcia, who had sunk $400,000 in last summer's abortive plot against Trujillo: "The free people of the Caribbean are uniting against despots. The liberation of the Caribbean is our object...
...support Costa Rica's leftist government, which was beaten in last month's presidential elections, Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza sent fighter planes and transports and 400 well-drilled National Guardsmen to San Jose. At La Sabana airport, the Nicaraguans boarded...
...Homeland. Betancourt got a quick answer. Roman y Reyes (whose nephew, Dictator Anastasio Somoza, really runs Nicaragua) soon cabled back that the planes had been confiscated, the Venezuelans arrested. Said he: "These planes will not leave Nicaraguan territory to attack the noble homeland of Bolivar...
...Boss Anastasio Somoza smelled trouble, and his Guardia National found more scents of it almost every day. At the home of an ex-hardware merchant named Luis H. Scott, enough dynamite was found to blow the Somoza government clean out of business. That, charged the Guardia, was exactly what Don Luis had planned to do with...