Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks to the Guardia, Somoza can boast: "I know every man in Nicaragua and what he represents." Thanks also to the Guardia, for twelve years he has owned and operated his little country (pop. 1,108,800), with its tiny upper class and sandaled proletariat...
...Tamale. Tacho says he dislikes rough stuff: when a man is sure of his position, he thinks, it isn't necessary-as the case of General Carlos Pasos shows. Pasos, once a good Somoza man and like him a Liberal, fell out with the dictator in 1944. Nicaragua, Pasos felt, could do with a little more democracy; after a time the Liberals called a convention to talk about it. Some of the cautious ones went to Tacho to get his views. They got them. "Tell Carlos Pasos that I know that twice last night at the home of Castro...
There was no gunplay. Pasos did not make his speech; instead, he went to jail for three weeks. But neither then nor later did Tacho touch the textile mill and other businesses that made Pasos wealthy. General Pasos still hangs around Managua, in halfhearted opposition to Somoza-but Tacho is in wholehearted control...
Once a Nicaraguan Conservative, who had been under house arrest for two months on Tacho's order, charged up to the general at a party and roared: "I want to know why you ordered my house arrest!" Said Somoza, grinning: "I did it to please your wife. She told me she couldn't keep you home nights...
...Lately, son Tachito has been cut in on the gravy. He got a 40% share in a new airline hauling mining machinery from the U.S. and meat to Cuba. When a Nicaraguan worked up a profitable new business shipping monkeys to the U.S., Tachito heard about it. Now a Somoza is in monkey business...