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...bring this country peace," Somoza I was reported to have said, "if I have to kill every other man in Nicaragua." Somoza I was followed by Somoza II and III, all supported politically and financially by the United States. The dynasty reached its fullest flower with Somoza III, who sold everything he could find in Nicaragua, including the blood of his fellow citizens, to the United States. The Somozas persevered until they were overthrown by Sandino's spiritual successors, the Sandinistas...
...gone to Nicaragua to write a cookbook, I would have returned with at least one fairly serviceable, all-purpose left-wing dish. Recipe for a Communist: Preheat a Third World dictatorship whose principal devotions are to its own maintenance and anti-Communism; coddle an oligarchy that controls 90 percent of the national wealth; skin off an educated middle class through exile or intimidation; chill dissent by suppression; crush peasants and workers with hunger and debts that make progress impossible; let foreign corporations porations drain the country of raw materials; stir in an army that reports only to the dictator...
...invade Nicaragua, we have, of course, to win or lose. If we lose, we lose big, as in Vietnam, but more humiliating because of where Nicaragua is. If we win, we conquer the territory. If we conquer, we have to administer, either by ourselves or through a new creature of our imagination and potency such as the Somozas were, we can turn Central America, Mexico and much of South America into potential enemies and therefore into--by our own definition of enemy--Communists...
...both made the history of this hemisphere," Carlos Fuentes ringingly told a Harvard Commencement audience. "We must both remember it. We must both imagine it." Until the United States incorporates Nicaragua into our memory, we will not be able to imagine it. And until we can imagine it, we will not begin to see Nicaragua...
Peter Davis '57 is the author of Where Is Nicaragua?, published by Simon and Schuster in April...