Word: chamorro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently Somoza was only trying to smoke out a plot that was being hatched across the border, but Arevalo had no intention of being used as a smudge pot. "Absolutely false," he replied coldly. Old Nicaraguan Rebel Emiliano Chamorro, who is now in Guatemala, took time off from his scheming to add his own sardonic comment. "Our efforts are confined to diplomacy," he said. "Somoza, scared by his own crimes, has a persecution complex and is trying to escape attention by making fantastic accusations to justify a wave of terror in Nicaragua...
...Vive. At week's end, Somoza was still on the alert. Night & day his airplanes patrolled the sky over Managua, and the tough Guardia had been withdrawn to positions on the hill. Whispered Managuans: "They're coming, they're coming soon." Who? Why, old General Emiliano Chamorro, of course', who at 76 was about to embark on his 17th revolution...
...ello, who had been kicked out of the presidency when he turned on The Boss and decided to run the country himself (TIME, June 2), spoke out with surprising boldness. Biding its time was Somoza's real opposition, led by General Carlos Pasos and gimlet-eyed General Emiliano Chamorro...
...high, lace-hung bed, sick, old (78) Opposition Leader General Emiliano Chamorro glared as fiercely as in the fervid days when he piled up a record of 16 revolutions without a single failure. "He knows my conditions," he snapped. General Chamorro's conditions are: 1) that his Conservatives help count the ballots; 2) that his partisans-barred from preliminary registration-be allowed to vote...
...Government-rigged election passed off with a minimum of stabbings and disorder. Results will not be certified until next week, but Somoza claimed victory for his candidate and successor, Dr. Leonardo Augüello, 71, a druggist with a deep-dyed beard. General Chamorro's candidate, Dr. Enoc Aguado, also claimed victory...