Word: managua
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There was no gunplay. Pasos did not make his speech; instead, he went to jail for three weeks. But neither then nor later did Tacho touch the textile mill and other businesses that made Pasos wealthy. General Pasos still hangs around Managua, in halfhearted opposition to Somoza-but Tacho is in wholehearted control...
...Miss." Though Tacho runs Nicaragua, he has a stooge President, 76-year-old Dr. Victor Román y Reyes, who happens to be his uncle. Tacho does not live in the presidential palace, but in a grey fortresslike place known as La Curva on the volcanic rim above Managua...
...says he'll think it over, he'll forget about it. If he asks for a memo he'll never read it. When his office work is done, he goes to look at the cattle on his Mercedes ranch down the lake shore from Managua. "I'm no politico," says Tacho, without batting an eyelash. "I'm a farmer...
...that most of the money was going into Tacho's pockets, called him back. "Listen, Tacho," said Moncada, "you are not even a thief; you are a pickpocket. Get out of here." Somoza landed on his feet, became a consul in Costa Rica. Soon he was back in Managua, as Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs...
Angry Ambassador Shaw charged over to Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza's palace to demand that the press be scolded for such rudeness. Last week, gossips in Managua (and Washington, too) were telling how, when Shaw left, Somoza had leaned back in his chair and roared with laughter. "Well," boomed Tacho, "I guess we won't have a free press in Nicaragua any more. The U.S. ambassador won't permit...