Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Central America's heady unrest swept into Nicaragua, rippled ominously around the white hilltop palace of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. In his spacious office, flanked by two ack-ack guns, a grand piano and a juke box, shrewd "Tacho" Somoza might well wonder if the jig were up. For seven years he had been Central America's most genial, least bloodthirsty dictator. But he had made all Nicaragua his racket, with opéra-bouffe trimmings. He had justified his record with a plaintive: "Godammit, I want to make sure that my family has enough to live on after...
...Politician. In Nicaraguan politics Tacho was a natural from the start. After a lean youth which included a spell of meter-reading, residence in the U.S., and marriage into Nicaragua's potent Debayle family, Tacho entered public life via civil war. In the troubles of 1926-27, notable for the intervention of U.S. Marines...
...Club" of Central America to half its former membership. Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez of El Salvador fell last May before a popular strike which set the pattern for Guatemala. The two survivors, Dictator Tiburcio Carías of Honduras and Dictator Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua, were seriously threatened by the wave of unarmed strikes sweeping Latin America...
...Tacho" Somoza of Nicaragua also extended his term illegally, also faced rebellion. Last week he suppressed a demonstration of students and citizens by shooting a few and arresting over 200. Across the Costa Rican border waited thousands of Nicaraguans, eager for a chance to invade their own country. Last week Dictator Somoza received 18 Lend-Lease airplanes from the U.S. They may aid him militarily, but cannot help him against the non-violent but powerful pressure of a brazos caídos strike...
...unique service goes to 3,000 shut-in or isolated children in all of the 48 states and such odd spots as Poona, Ruanda-Urundi, Juneau, Waialua, Horta, Haiti. It is constantly expanding: last week Calvert was taking on U.S. children who will study as a group in Nicaragua's torrid Managua...