Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, would have seen nothing unusual. The mountainous, forest-matted isthmus lay quietly in the greasy November sun. Among the many human realities invisible to the buzzard were the boundary lines-the imaginary but very actual barriers that said: "This is Costa Rica; this is Guatemala; this is Nicaragua...
...below the coasting buzzard, in the grey-green jungles of northern Nicaragua, more was stirring than his great bird's-eye view could catch. Snaking through the scrub, guerrilla riflemen made short, sharp little raids against government outposts. In & out of the piny mountain country on Nicaragua's northern flank, armed, machete-toting men filtered mysteriously. In Guatemala and Costa Rica dusty little companies, in faded denim and khaki, marked time in the tropic heat...
...first press conference, a few days later, Shaw learned that it was not going to be that simple. This time newsmen peppered him with hot questions about Nicaragua's explosive political situation. Questions like that, snapped Shaw, were out of bounds. Next morning the Managua press let him have it. "Former U.S. ambassadors used to turn away our questions with a smile," wrote one correspondent. "Shaw does it with austerity...
...demand that the press be scolded for such rudeness. Last week, gossips in Managua (and Washington, too) were telling how, when Shaw left, Somoza had leaned back in his chair and roared with laughter. "Well," boomed Tacho, "I guess we won't have a free press in Nicaragua any more. The U.S. ambassador won't permit...
...foot stuffed alligator across the room. "The man responsible for this mess is Arevalo, up in Guatemala," he growled. Tacho had heard that Arevalo was making jokes: "Let him talk about sending me flowers. I'll send them over to him first. He plans to attack Honduras and Nicaragua. He has just made a pact with Figueres of Costa Rica, Prío Socarrás of Cuba, and the Caribbean Communist tramps to destroy the peace of Central America. He is responsible for Central America's coming...