Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eight Latin American countries declared war in 1917 and 1918: Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. But practically speaking none of them took part except economically...
...President from 1930 to 1938. He then refused a third term "following United States precedent" and now rules instead as generalissimo of the army. He was much put out this past year as he watched the parade of other Latin-American strongmen to Washington: Cuba's Batista, Nicaragua's Somoza, Brazil's Aranha and Monteiro (TIME, Nov. 14, et seq.). All these received official invitations, were saluted, handshaken, welcomed at the White House. But for Dictator Trujillo, no invitation came...
...keep on good terms with good neighbors in Latin America, and turn bad ones into good ones, the U. S. lately has lavished foofaraw and funds on Brazil, Haiti, Nicaragua. Last week in Washing ton, Paraguay's President-elect José Félix Estigarribia got his share: a $500,000 credit to bolster the wavering Paraguayan peso, plus further loans to finance purchases of U. S. materials, machinery, services for Paraguayan roads and industry...
...Neighbor Nicaragua got $2,000,000 in credits from Mr. Roosevelt (arranged by the Bank of the Manhattan Company and guaranteed by the Export-Import Bank) as a consequence of President Anastasio Somoza's visit (TIME, May 15). Next good neighbor (Brazil was first: $50,000,000 in March) expecting a handout: Paraguay...
...Nicaragua's chunky President Anastasio Somoza, in the U. S. on a canal-selling and sightseeing trip, found a certain drawback to visiting-in-state. Said he: "They do things differently here. . . . In the White House, when I wanted to see my wife, I had to leave my room, go down a long corridor, and into another room to find her. Now in my own country, I don't have to do that...