Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guardia had moved up to first. Its commander. General Anastacio Somoza, had undermined President Juan Bautista Sacasa's prestige by the simple device of depositing a big arms shipment from the U. S. in his own warehouse instead of the Government's. By last week he had cornered most of the guns in Nicaragua and he needed them, for nearly everybody believed that it was he who had ordered the murder of Sandino...
President Sacasa had completely lost face by his failure to catch Sandino's murderers. A grave, honest gentleman, graduate of Columbia University, he was made for peace. Last week Nicaraguans rumored that he was "actually the prisoner of General Somoza," that his personal bodyguard took orders from Somoza...
...week and announced that he had the papers that entitled him to leadership of Sandino's followers. Cried he: "I have ten generals and 1,500 armed men ready to take the field at the order of President Sacasa against the dictatorship now in control of the country [Somoza...
...representative of Sandino, seemed to have inside knowledge: ". . . His automobile was halted by a group of 25 guardsmen led by Lieut. Antonio Lopez. 'I have orders to shoot you,' Lopez said. 'Why?' asked Sandino. 'I am sure there must be some mistake. Telephone General Somoza and see if there is not a mistake.' The lieutenant telephoned Somoza. He returned and told Sandino that he was to be shot in accordance with superior orders. Sandino, Estrada and Umanzor [his two favorite generals] were then taken to a place where a grave had been dug some...
Then Dentist Zepeda set a match to Nicaragua's prime emotion: suspicion of the U. S., of which Sandino was hero and symbol. "I am suspicious," said Zepeda, "of the fact that the U. S. Minister to Nicaragua Arthur Bliss Lane had luncheon with General Somoza only a few hours before Sandino was assassinated by Somoza's National Guardsmen." Well-known is the fact that Somoza has potent friends among the U. S. citizens in Nicaragua, as has President Sacasa...