Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Somoza boasted that his side had already won. Even if that were so, he may have lost the larger war. Two weeks before the fighting began, 15 opposition political parties, labor groups and business organizations, banded into a "Broad Opposition Front," mounted a general strike to force the Somoza family out of power. The strike had a quick effect since the participants controlled 75% of the nation's industry and 90% of its commerce. Last week, in a further show of unity, the front, joined by the Sandinistas, called on five friendly Latin American nations to mediate a ceasefire...
...meanwhile, had cut off military aid for Somoza and was seeking to bring the Broad Opposition Front and the government together in hopes of finding a "Nicaraguan solution." Explained a State Department official: "We're trying to avoid any 'U.S. solution.' If we were to suggest that Somoza should take a three-month vacation, that's exactly what Somoza's people would do-and then say that this was what the Americans told them to do." But Nicaraguan opposition leaders demanded more substantial U.S. support than that; for example, a cut in $11 million worth...
...country had been under military control since the guerrilla war began six years ago. In Iran the Shah's declaration brought a clampdown on civil liberties and empowered the army to arrest without charges and to invade homes without warrants. In Nicaragua martial law merely underscored Anastasio Somoza's desperate situation. Said a Managua businessman: "Martial law here is simply a license to kill...
MANAGUA, Nic.--President Anastasio Somoza used troops, tanks, and warplanes to quell the latest and bloodiest uprising against his rule, but the rebellion against him appears far from over...
...Somoza said he unleashed his military forces on Esteli and three other major cities to save the nation from communism, which he claims is being imported by Cuban-trained Sandinista guerillas...