Word: sacasa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nicaragua's regularly elected President Juan Bautista Sacasa last week ruled only the top of the dead volcano on which stands the Presidential Palace at Managua. In complete control of the rest of Nicaragua was the National Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, and its General Anastasio Somoza, who had deployed his men around the base of the volcano. No murmur of protest at these activities rose from the Nicaraguan populace, who chose to regard the affair strictly as a quarrel between Somoza and Sacasa for the right to name...
...Marines left Nicaragua in 1933, they left behind them an idea of a cure for continuismo: a constitution that forbade a President to be succeeded by a kinsman; and a potent, nonParty, Marine-trained National Guard headed by General Anastasio Somoza, whose wife is President Juan Bautista Sacasa's niece...
...that the National Guard merely became a third party and General Somoza, for all his kinship to the President, went out for the Presidency with all his U. S. guns. Two years ago Somoza's men assassinated his chief enemy, famed Rebel Augusto Cesar Sandino. Last month President Sacasa tried desperately to stall off his kinsmen by getting Nicaragua's two parties to agree to nominate only one Presidential candidate for Nicaragua's elections next autumn, first since the Marines left...
Last week General Somoza showed his hand. His National Guard kicked out the Government's officials in a dozen Nicaraguan towns. Forewarned, President Sacasa prepared Nicaragua's two strongest fortresses: surrounded the pink stone Presidential Palace near Managua on top of a dead volcano with his Guard of Honor, pushed loyal National Guardsmen to Fort Acosasco in Leon. Next day the National Guard assaulted the Presidential Palace in force, were repulsed with two dead, 16 wounded. Meanwhile National Guard artillery pounded away at Fort Acosasco, commanded by the President's kinsman, Major Ramon Sacasa...
Married. Helen Lee Eames Doherty, step-daughter of Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty; and Theodore Wessel, Danish sportsman; at the home of President Juan Bautista Sacasa in Managua, Nicaragua...