Word: anastasios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hyperbolic way of expressing the fear that Arbenz (now plotting in Uruguay) and his exiled henchmen might try to regain power in the confusion. It seemed more likely that the assassin was a fanatic from the same mold as the assassin who last September killed Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio Somoza. But Castillo's friends moved quickly to head off any Red comeback. His wife, outwardly calm, ran straight from the murder scene to call Vice President Luis Arturo González López. At a dawn emergency session, Congress named affable Lawyer-Landowner Arturo Gonz...
...revolt, spent two years and seven months in a Perón jail for refusing to wear a black mourning band after Evita Perón's death. Shortly after the dictator's downfall, he was appointed as Argentine ambassador to Nicaragua at a time when Strongman Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza had publicly proclaimed that Perón would be welcome in Managua. Toranzo arranged a private talk between Tacho and Argentine President Pedro Aramburu; three days later Perón left Tacho's palace. Toranzo's big job in Caracas is to try to get Peron...
...General Batista, No, No, No!). But his customers will not let one old Kontiki song die, even though its subject, President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza of Nicaragua, is no longer in the news-and no longer around. Telling the story of Somoza's assassination, it begins...
...mention that Anastasio Somoza Jr. ("Tachito") of Nicaragua was educated at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. It would make interesting reading if you could unearth the bug-brained bureaucrat who awarded a West Point appointment to the son of a foreign dictator...
Born. To Luis Anastasio Somoza de Bayle, 33, President of Nicaragua since the assassination of his father. Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, last month, and Isabel Urcuyo de Somoza: a fifth son, sixth child; in Managua, Nicaragua. Name: Heraldo. Weight...