Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absence of the President and Vice President, the Congress shall designate one of its members to complete the unexpired presidential term. The Vice President was absent. The President, Se?r Solorzano had resigned. Therefore the Nicaraguan Congress acted constitutionally on Nov. 10, 1926, when it elected Adolfo Diaz President. Therefore the U. S. has recognized the only lawful and constitutional President of Nicaragua...
Seven weeks ago, Secretary of State Kellogg was pleased to hear that Senor Adolfo Diaz had been elected President of Nicaragua by that republic's congress in joint session. With startling speed he sent U. S. recognition to President Diaz, a Conservative, an oldtime friend of the U. S. Department of State, who was recently employed by a U. S. mining company for a few dollars per week. Headline readers in the U. S. said: "Isn't it nice that those Nicaraguans are fixed up at last?" But shrewder observers in Washington and all of Central America knew...
...more pertinent reason for Rear Admiral Latimer's presence was the fact that President Diaz's forces had been defeated by the Liberals. After all, if the U. S. is going to have a protégé in Nicaragua, it might as well protect him by armed intervention...
From one source we hear that Diaz, head of the constitutional party, is the servile puppet of United States business interests. From another, he is the white hope of law and order. So also, Sacasa, liberal leader, is said to represent "the pee-pul" of Nicaragua in their fight against United States influence and to be a man of the highest integrity and sincerity. From another angle he is probably a Bolshevist agent, whose chief motive for attacking the established power is hope of graft or desire for revenge...
...Coolidge administration, is stretching the Monroe Doctrine to the breaking point, or that Nicaragua is in a tangle that only American Marines can unravel, one thing seems not impossible, War with Mexico may follow. On the Atlantic Coast Admiral Latimer is landing arms and men to pro up Diaz. On the Pacific the Calles government is indulging in a quiet little filibustering in favor of Sacasa...