Word: somoza
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sweltering Nicaragua, Tacho Somoza readied a modest house on his cattle and cotton ranch, which overlooks the Pacific, for Peron. "He will be my house guest," said Tacho. "I might even give him a chance to do some work with a pick and shovel." But there were hints that Tacho, too, hoped that discredited Juan Peron would soon move on again...
...Relations with a minor" is a common, nonpolitical crime that could have subjected the exiled Peron to extradition to Argentina for trial. Moreover, Paraguay, his host, had become increasingly nervous over his presence so near to Argentina. So when old friend Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the Nicaraguan dictator, invited him to drop in for a visit, Peron decided to move...
...Tiny El Salvador takes the traveler through rich coffee land on paved roads, and he crosses Honduras' corridor to the Pacific on good gravel. Nicaragua's part of the highway, looping here and there to touch at the various ranches of President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, is mostly macadam...
...aimed at ending tension between the countries. But Nixon found the role of peacemaker forced on him by 1) the understandable U.S. desire to see the little cold war ended; and 2) the persistent belligerence, impossible to ignore, of those two articulate, extrovert Presidents, Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza and Costa Rica's Jose ("Pepe") Figueres...
Figueres similarly initiated Nixon's visit to San José by telling reporters that he would "never sit down with that Somoza," but he also wound up by assuring Nixon privately that he would "go more than halfway" to head off any more tension. The publicity Nixon turned on them may well keep them peaceful-for a while...