Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane buzzed his mosquito-bitten border towns, the dictator ordered his armed AT6 trainers to patrol the Costa Rican border, to shoot down intruders on sight. "I will permit no more violations of the national territory," he thundered. Just in case the Legion should make Honduras the road to Nicaragua, Tacho deployed 500 National Guardsmen along his northern frontier, sent 200 right into Honduras to help his friend Carias...
...State Department wants no filibustering in the Caribbean. Besides, the rules of the U.N. and the Pan American system ban direct attacks by any American country against a neighbor. Tacho could also thank the U.S. for the best army in Central America. After the U.S. Marines moved into Nicaragua to protect U.S. interests in the Coolidge administration, they reorganized and trained Nicaragua's army. Before the Marines pulled out in 1933, the crack new Guardia National was the country's police force as well as its army...
Thanks to the Guardia, Somoza can boast: "I know every man in Nicaragua and what he represents." Thanks also to the Guardia, for twelve years he has owned and operated his little country (pop. 1,108,800), with its tiny upper class and sandaled proletariat...
...Tamale. Tacho says he dislikes rough stuff: when a man is sure of his position, he thinks, it isn't necessary-as the case of General Carlos Pasos shows. Pasos, once a good Somoza man and like him a Liberal, fell out with the dictator in 1944. Nicaragua, Pasos felt, could do with a little more democracy; after a time the Liberals called a convention to talk about it. Some of the cautious ones went to Tacho to get his views. They got them. "Tell Carlos Pasos that I know that twice last night at the home of Castro...
...Never Miss." Though Tacho runs Nicaragua, he has a stooge President, 76-year-old Dr. Victor Román y Reyes, who happens to be his uncle. Tacho does not live in the presidential palace, but in a grey fortresslike place known as La Curva on the volcanic rim above Managua...