Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keyed to the humble brown mess at the bottom of his cooking pan. There must be times in this sunny town when the laughs come hard. That picture points to the prime dilemma of color reporting. Color is pretty, misery is not. Susan Meiselas followed the war against Somoza in Nicaragua. Jean-Marie Simon covered life in Guatemala during the worst years of military repression in the early 1980s. When men with automatic weapons stalk the streets, how do you keep the pinks and greens of Central America from trivializing the image? Meiselas and Simon do it by letting both...
...antichurch actions followed closely on the heels of the June 26 shutdown of La Prensa, the only remaining opposition daily in Managua. The 60- year-old newspaper's campaign against Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle once helped to put the revolutionary regime in power. Even so, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra insists that La Prensa has become a vehicle for CIA propaganda and will remain closed until the "war" is over...
...last summer, Kenworthy spent five weeks inNicaragua, learning Spanish and talking to anyonehe could find about the revolution. "Therevolution is overwhelmingly popular there," hesays. "I found only two people who thought thecountry was better under Somoza...
...been almost eight years since Eden Pastora Gomez, the Sandinistas' legendary "Commander Zero," stormed Managua's National Palace, paving the way for Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle's flight into exile. Soon feeling % powerless in a government that he charged was run by Communists, Pastora helped form the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) and began receiving covert U.S. aid to fight the Sandinistas. But the funds were cut off when Pastora refused to cooperate with other rebel forces...
Shortly before fleeing into exile in 1979, Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle erupted in fury over what he regarded as the complicity of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the Sandinista revolution. In particular, said Somoza, Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo of Managua should receive the new title of "Comandante Miguel." In fact, six years of increasingly harsh rule by the Marxist-oriented Sandinistas has brought Obando new prominence--and, indeed, notoriety. In 1985 Pope John Paul II elevated him to the College of Cardinals. He has emerged, in the eyes of Nicaragua's rulers, as their toughest critic. Foreign Minister...