Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tacho") Somoza. Said Prío: "The anachronistic presence of dictators on our continent retards our progress...
...TIME did not say that the planes had been sent-merely that "Trujillo's mechanics were busy scraping the Dominican insignia off three P-38s . . . ticketed for Nicaragua." The tickets have apparently been canceled, temporarily. Meanwhile, Dictator Somoza of Nicaragua sends his two B-24s over to Dictator Trujillo whenever they need servicing...
...That Arévalo. He hates me. I don't know why. Lord, he has troubles of his own in Guatemala-why bother to stick his nose into Nicaragua?" Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, who is proud of his English, paused abruptly and jabbed a fat finger into the stuffed Guatemalan quetzal that hung by his desk. "The quetzal-symbol of liberty or death to the Guatemalans," he snickered. "There are lots of tame ones in the Bronx...
...Smash three dictators-Somoza, Trujillo and Carias...
...come to the end of a policy. At Bogotá, the American nations had agreed to junk the old practice of not recognizing dictatorial or unpopular governments. Last week the U.S. (and Colombia) recognized the sovereign state of Nicaragua, ruled over by smirking, slippery Dictator Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza...