Word: anastasios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...procession of dignified, black-clad women streamed through the streets of Managua last month. Elderly mothers, respectable wives and daughters thus protested the mass arrest of more than 600 opponents of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. But ingenious "Tacho" Somoza broke up their demonstration with a more effective...
Central America's heady unrest swept into Nicaragua, rippled ominously around the white hilltop palace of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. In his spacious office, flanked by two ack-ack guns, a grand piano and a juke box, shrewd "Tacho" Somoza might well wonder if the jig were up. For seven years he had been Central America's most genial, least bloodthirsty dictator. But he had made all Nicaragua his racket, with opéra-bouffe trimmings. He had justified his record with a plaintive: "Godammit, I want to make sure that my family has enough to live on after...
...reduced the "Dictators' Club" of Central America to half its former membership. Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez of El Salvador fell last May before a popular strike which set the pattern for Guatemala. The two survivors, Dictator Tiburcio Carías of Honduras and Dictator Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua, were seriously threatened by the wave of unarmed strikes sweeping Latin America...
Nicaragua's President Anastasio Somoza keeps his turbulent people in line with the help of a well-paid, wellarmed, brutal National Guard (originally trained by U.S. Marines who occupied the country in 1926). Governing more by corruption than by violence, he gets a financial cut on nearly every profitable enterprise in the country. Loudly "pro-democratic," he stands well with the U.S. Government...
...issued through Salvador Mendieta, rector (until his resignation last week) of Central University at Managua, Nicaragua. For 40 years septuagenarian Mendieta has kept Morazán's dream alive in the minds of students. Back of Mendieta was the sponsorship of Nicaragua's dictatorlet, genial President General Anastasio Somoza...