Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Juan Bautista Sacasa, M.D., 71, exiled ex-President of Nicaragua (1933-36), whose regime ended with the traditional Central American military coup; in Los Angeles...
...Nicaragua's Dictator-President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza dined with his family at Montelimar, his big Pacific Coast finca (plantation...
Orozco, private secretary to Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, had been concerned about the repressed democrats of neighboring Honduras (which, with Nicaragua, had the last dictator-run government in Central America). Orozco went on the radio, broadcast to his neighbors: "Only the pines growing high on Honduras' proud mountains have remained free in that martyred land. And their roots go deep. 'Pines of Honduras' must become the password in the struggle to make Honduras free...
...widespread fighting approximately 500 were injured. Next day police rounded up anti-Somozistas. Those who reached Panama were lucky; many of the rest were shipped off to Nicaragua's penal colony on Corn Island...
Seven Nicaraguans in various stages of disarray (one wore a pajama coat) arrived last week in Panama, fugitives from the wrath of Nicaragua's Dictator-President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...