Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months, two rival rebel bands have set their sights on the brothers who run Nicaragua. President Luis and General Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza. One band was infiltrated by Communists, dominated by Fidel Castro and trained in Cuban meadows. The other, anti-Communist and wary of the Cuban group, made ready on secret training grounds in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Last week the anti-Communists struck first with an air invasion of Nicaragua...
...rebellion was aimed not only at the Somoza brothers, but also at the shade of their late father. Dictator Anastasio Somoza. By torturing, killing or exiling his opponents. ''Tacho" Somoza ran Nicaragua 20 years, stacked up an estimated $60 million in cash and property. When Tacho was cut down by an assassin's bullets 2½ years ago. Luis got himself elected in his father's place. While brother Tachito tried to keep the country quiet under the heavy thumb of the national guard, U.S.-educated (Universities of California. Maryland and Louisiana State) President Luis tried...
...become revolutionary headquarters of the Americas, with guns, boats, planes and men to man them all for the buying. In April Nicaraguan exiles boldly hijacked a C46 transport at Miami International Airport and flew off in an abortive assassination try against President Luis Somoza. In July a boatload of revolutionaries from Miami stormed ashore in Haiti only to be riddled by President null Duvalier's army. The next day Dominican rebels were nabbed loading arms on another C46 in Miami, apparently with the suicidal intention of invading Dictator Rafael Trujillo's ironclad state. And for every expedition caught...
...Promising to "give this country peace if I have to shoot every other man in Nicaragua to do it," Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza took command of the Nicaraguan National Guard when the U.S. Marines pulled out in 1933, parlayed his talents into dictatorship, a string of coffee plantations and cattle ranches into a $60 million fortune, was killed, at 60, by an assassin in September...
...talk of Nicaragua last week was a poem. Honoring the memory of assassinated Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza-and reminding Nicaraguans that his dynasty continues in his sons-the government newspaper Novedades offered $140 for the best verse of homage to the dead President. The winning entry was 14 lines of flowery verse ("Renowned paladin and cavalier/Glory of America!"). Managua's citizens, by and large, read it glumly, but here and there a face lit up with malicious appreciation. Novedades' editors ran the poem (which was signed with a pen name) for several days-until they, too, noticed that...