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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...
...late Calixto Carias, "director" of a nonexistent artillery school, returned from a U.S. visit enthusiastic over beisbol* (baseball). Ten years before, his uncle, Dictator-President Tiburcio Carias Andino, had abolished sport teams and clubs in Honduras as possible blinds for political conspiracy. Nephew Calixto got beisbol legalized on the grounds that soldiers should learn to pitch hand grenades. In the shadow of baseball's new legality, futbol (soccer) also mushroomed...
Honduras. Democratic ferment also bubbled in Honduras last week, where Gargantuan, 69-year-old Tiburcio Carias Andino, Dictator-President since 1933, raised the state of siege prevailing almost from the day he took office. He liberated 300 political prisoners, sought a stooge to serve out his term (till...
...revolt petered out, rebels bolted like rabbits for Guatemala and Honduras (whose President Tiburcio Carias Andino was reported to have had a hand in the plot). Another rumored instigator, El Salvador's ex-President Osmin Aguirre, who does not like the present Government's more liberal program and federation-with-Guatemala plans, had remained discreetly in the background...
...influence. For security reasons the U.S. made friends with the modern caciques, granted them big loans, including Lend-Lease arms. Inflation swelled like a tumor. But Lend-Lease generosity made Franklin Roosevelt so popular with the dictators that, when Wendell Willkie ran against him, a nephew of Carias Andino asked bewilderedly: "Why doesn't Roosevelt have him shot...