Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nicaragua's dictator was attending a small dinner party with a group of intimate friends at Managua's Nejapa Country Club when his Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs entered with a copy of the November 15th issue of TIME with Somoza's portrait on the cover. It had just arrived on the evening plane with that week's shipment for Nicaragua...
Macoy asked "Tacho" Somoza, who does control Nicaragua, just what part of the story wasn't true. "Oh, that stuff about me getting some money to pay somebody. That all came from the opposition, but I don't mind. Hell, when they (TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin) told me about doing a story, I said, 'Why bother about me? I'm a friend of the United States.' But they said they needed the story, so I said go ahead. Hell, that's a lotta propaganda - didn't cost me a penny...
Throughout the five colorful Central American republics the Somoza story received maximum attention. All of the newspapers published either full translations of it, or excerpts from it, or commented upon it. La Estrella de Nicaragua (see cut) ran TIME'S cover on Page One, together with Bob Chapin's map (Somoza on the Spot) and a photograph of the Dictator and some cohorts reading the issue...
...Nicaragua request that you declare Anastasio Somoza [TIME, Nov. 15] Man of the Year...
...Managua, Nicaragua...