Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nicaragua's President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the government charged excitedly, was scheming with Guatemalan anti-Communists to invade Guatemala...
...Good for Tacho. Aside from that, Tacho clearly felt that almost everything was right with the world, and especially the 57,145 sq. mi. of it that is Nicaragua. Everyone there knows that what is good for Tacho is good for the country, and things at the moment are very good for Tacho. Since the U.S. Marines moved out and he took over, almost 20 years ago, he has created considerable wealth in his little (pop. 1,088,000) republic. Some of it has rubbed off on Nicaragua and deserving Nicaraguans. But plenty of it (reportedly as much...
...shrewd real-estate buyer, Tacho owns almost 10% of his country's arable land. Because his holdings are widely scattered, Nicaragua now has more than 600 miles of all-weather public roads, compared with twelve miles in the '30s. Along a 40-mile stretch of the new road from Managua to Tamarindo, there is not a single town, village or house-but the road ends at a valuable salt flat where Tacho plans to process enough salt for the whole country. His diversified interests have helped transform Nicaragua from a one-crop (coffee) country into an exporter...
...army; he was trained for it. Luis is a politician, but he does not have the popularity or experience for the presidency-yet." That seemed to leave but one choice. "If the people want me," Tacho said, "I will serve again in 1957." Tacho's newspaper Novedades (Nicaragua's biggest, circ. 14,000) has already started telling the people that they want...
...Communist advisers and policymakers. If the Reds are putting over the Cominform line in Guatemala, the wider meaning of this is lost on him. Neighboring Central American republics are at odds with Guatemala over the growing evidence that its comrades play the international Communist game, passing Red propaganda into Nicaragua and El Salvador and sending agitators to stir up Salvadorian and Honduran banana and coffee workers. Inside his own country, the split between left & right has widened until Arbenz himself says: "There is no middle ground today in Guatemala...