Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tolerating Fidel Castro, the big powers repeat their 1932 mistake of tolerating Hitler. Castro, Somoza and Trujillo all justify their crimes with the claim of defending the people. Castro openly murders (official word: executes) hundreds of those who dare to have different opinions, but strangely, everybody sees only the villainies of the other two. Is it because when they kill, they do not make a public show...
...airborne rebellion against Nicaragua's Somoza brothers-President Luis and National Guard Commander Anastasio-fizzled toward failure last week...
...calling cards: "Forty-five rebels want to surrender. They have laid down their guns. Please don't come in shooting." A Guard patrol surrounded the house, took the surrender. Three days later Medina's holdout leader, Pedro Joaquln Chamorro, editor-owner of Managua's anti-Somoza La Prensa, also gave himself up. That left 38 rebels still at large, scattered through the hills near the Olama River 65 miles northeast of Managua...
...rebels had overestimated their own toughness and underestimated the Somoza boys' strength, which included a well trained and loyal army, reliable reservists, and the neutrality of the urban and rural masses. Most Nicaraguans apparently are not interested in overthrowing President Luis, who has been liberalizing the dictatorship he inherited from his assassinated father, tough old Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...
...Somoza name was hard to live down, and three months ago, two of Tacho's old enemies-Gynecologist Enrique Lacayo Farfan and Pedro Joaquin Chamarro, editor-owner of Managua's La Prensa-began marshaling their forces...