Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contained in Mr. Gunther's volume. It is that we are making a big mistake if we think there is such a thing as an entity of Latin America. Argentina, with its fierce nationalistic complex, differs utterly from gay, easy-going Brazil. Chile has a progressive Popular Front government, Nicaragua is an absolute dictatorship. In short, to understand our neighbors we must understand not one, but twenty one peoples...
President Anastasio Somoza, "absolute and undisputed boss of Nicaragua," has machine guns mounted outside his palace and moves around in a bullet-proof...
Colombia put several German suspects in jail. In Nicaragua many another found himself in hot water...
...Managua, Nicaragua...
...left his profitable private law practice when Calvin Coolidge sent him to Nicaragua to straighten out a tangle that Marine occupation had never quite unraveled. Stimson's remedy: an election supervised by the Marines. In a few weeks politeness was restored (as the Marines have...