Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they still call me a dictator?" President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza mused one day last week, as he chatted with a visitor on the plank porch of his Tamarindo ranch house. "Our jails are empty of political prisoners. Our press is as free as a bird. The newspapers attack me all the time. I let them. They can call me anything but an s.o.b." The President laughed: "I won't stand for that...
...part of its $1.3 billion highways bill for the present session, the U.S. Congress last week authorized $4,000,000 for a 200-mile road linking Nicaragua's Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It was a great victory for Nicaraguan Dictato Tacho Somoza, convalescing in Boston after a major abdominal operation. "I am awfully happy," said Tacho. "Nicaragua is the best friend the U.S. has-and I love that road. It can transport troops across the isthmus if the Panama Canal should be blown...
Stepping briskly down from his special Pan American Convair at Washington's airport, Tacho Somoza embraced Assistant Secretary of State Edward G. Miller and announced: "I feel at home here." Next day he called on Dean Acheson. Asked by newsmen what problems he had discussed with Acheson, Somoza answered blandly: "We have no problems in Nicaragua." Later, President Truman had Tacho to lunch at the renovated White House, showed his guest around the place and played the piano for him. "A great pianist," said Tacho...
Nicaragua. The personal property of Dictator "Tacho" Somoza, a far more amiable character than his pal Trujillo...
...stories was the Art section's cover on Diego Rivera, the only man ever to paint his own cover portrait on commission from TIME. Some of the other cover stories along the way: Puerto Rico's Governor Muñoz Marín, Nicaragua's Boss Somoza, Mexico's President Alemán, Brazil's President Vargas...