Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is a reputation that has plagued Switzerland for years. Argentina's Juan Perón, the Shah of Iran and Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza had large Swiss accounts in the past. Among current world leaders, Zaïre's Mobutu Sese Seko is believed to have substantial holdings on deposit. Swiss banks have been a haven for foreign capital since the French Revolution. The current rules on confidentiality were set up in 1934 to protect Jews fleeing Nazi Germany...
...full impact of the October 18th massacre was clear when we reached a school that was converted into a refugee center. Schools symbolize a key objective of the Nicaraguan Revolution. One of the first acts of the new Sandinista government following its victory over Somoza in 1979, was to launch a campaign to educate the country's illiterate, who then comprised 51 percent of the nation. A handful of the 185,000 young teaching volunteers from Managus and other cities went to Pantasma. Many of their students became teachers themselves. They were the first to die at the hands...
...that las descended upon Nicaragua's 2.9 million people. Only a few months ago, citizens eagerly rallied by the thousands to listen to the exhortations of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). The reason: a willingness at that time to defend the 1979 revolution hat ousted Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle against the increasingly bold attacks of "Yankee imperialism," embodied in the contra forces trained and supplied by the Central Intelligence Agency...
...promises for better economic conditions, and in fact have allowed prices to rocket and wages to stagnate. "A bag of detergent costs ten times more than it did during the dictatorship," complains one barefoot campesino. Says another: "It is like that for everything. We were better off under Somoza...
...Nicaraguans lament the 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle and his right-wing dictatorship, of course, but many of the peasants of Nueva Segovia oppose the Sandinistas strongly enough to support the contra cause at great risk. Those who are caught aiding the guerrillas are often killed by the Sandinistas. The contras can be equally brutal when they uncover Sandinista informers or seize enemy troops. "If we capture them in a fight and they have no more ammunition, then they must die," said a subcomandante known as Pelón. "That shows they were trying to kill us and gave...