Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Latin America. The U.S. must not condone the idea that justice rests exclusively in the hands of those who seek change by resorting to bloodshed, terrorism and so-called wars of liberation. I would have hoped that somewhat more visionary treatment could have been given to Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza-and whatever warts he and his regime manifested-without decapitation...
...coup. Many Salvadorans are resigned to the inevitability of civil war. At the moment, the government has about 15,000 men under arms, while the leftists have perhaps 5,000 active guerrillas; the military odds, in short, are roughly the same as the ones that the late dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle faced in Nicaragua at the start of the Sandinista rebellion...
...assassination, as it happened, came at a time when the revolutionary regime has become increasingly worried about the ousted Somoza forces. A few days before the assassination, the Nicaraguan junta revealed that it had thwarted a plot by former National Guard officers to free thousands of jailed former soldiers and put together teams to kill the Sandinista leadership. They identified Somoza's eldest son, Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Portocarrero, 29, as the "principal leader" of the plot...
...Somoza complained bitterly after his ouster that he had been betrayed by the "traitorous" U.S. Still, it was to Miami that his body was flown for burial. It was Miami that had also been his first stop as an exile. But then, fearful that the U.S. might allow his extradition to Nicaragua, he moved on to Paraguay at the invitation of Dictator Alfredo Stroessner. In Asunción, Somoza's flamboyant social life and amorous escapades offended many Paraguayans. His reluctance to invest his hoarded fortune (estimated at $100 million) in the country was also said to have caused...
DIED. General Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 54, Nicaragua's longtime strongman who was ousted last year; of bazooka and machine-gun fire after leaving his exile villa; in Asunción, Paraguay (see WORLD...