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...trophy-littered office in the hills above Managua, jowly little Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, since 1937 Dictator-President of Nicaragua, smiled a crooked smile. "I understand the opposition is boasting of its Red Cross arrangements for election day and after. If they plan to test me, I advise them to have plenty of Red Crosses." Armed with wisecracks and 5,000 loyal, U.S. Marine-trained soldiers of the Guardia, Tacho was ready for anything...
Apparently he was not so ill after all. In Boston's Baptist Hospital, President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza recovered rapidly this week from a major intestinal operation. Nicaraguans had learned in the dictator's month-long leave of absence that his strong hand was over them, even from a foreign sickbed...
Jungle Tyranny. The vagaries of U.S. policy, to whose tune the banana dictators dance, helped tyrants hang on. Last winter, when Spruille Braden's blasts against tyranny were loudest, Dictators Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and Tiburcio Carías Andino of Honduras behaved almost like gentlemen. Jail doors swung open, the press spoke up, elections were promised. Now rumor whispered that Bradenism was on the way out (vigorously denied in Washington last week) and the Strong Boys were strutting again...
Nicaragua's Dictator-President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza dined with his family at Montelimar, his big Pacific Coast finca (plantation...
Seven Nicaraguans in various stages of disarray (one wore a pajama coat) arrived last week in Panama, fugitives from the wrath of Nicaragua's Dictator-President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...