Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Daniels took over ARA a little over a year, ago, he argued for recognition of "Tacho" Somoza's puppet President Victor Román y Reyes in Nicaragua. Daniels realistically pointed out that nonrecognition had failed to weaken Tacho's grip on his volcano-ridged nation, and had put the U.S. into the position of refusing to recognize an established fact...
...carried this line of reasoning a step further at last April's Bogotá conference. Supported by Argentina, he advanced the doctrine of continuous recognition. The doctrine, adopted as Resolution 35, bound the conference's members to renounce recognition as a weapon in international politics. Recognition of Nicaragua followed...
...midmorning, shrilling sirens in San Jose brought the people of Costa Rica's capital out into the streets. Just nine days after Costa Rica had disbanded its army, the country had been invaded from Nicaragua by supporters of banished ex-President Rafael Calderon Guardia. Costa Rica's provisional government, headed by Colonel Jose Figueres, called the nation to arms, got set to fight for its life...
...first serious clash was in the northwest, at the town of La Cruz (pop. 2,000), where an advance column of attackers from Nicaragua with jeeps, mortars and automatic weapons routed the 15 customs guards in the local garrison. Figueres estimated the invasion spearhead at 800 to 1,000 men, of whom about 100 were genuine Costa Rican exiles. The rest, he charged, were Communists, mercenaries, and a hard core of picked troops from Nicaragua's Guardia National...
Whose Affair? Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza affected bland surprise: "I'm told Calderon Guardia invaded Costa Rica-but that's his affair. We're guarding our frontier." Actually Calderon had issued his revolutionary proclamation in Managua, Tacho's capital. Dissident Costa Ricans had been training openly at Rivas in southern Nicaragua. Costa Rican intelligence sources reported concentrations of troops and barges at San Juan del Sur on Tacho's Pacific coast and Bluefields on the Caribbean...