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Apparently he was not so ill after all. In Boston's Baptist Hospital, President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza recovered rapidly this week from a major intestinal operation. Nicaraguans had learned in the dictator's month-long leave of absence that his strong hand was over them, even from a foreign sickbed...
Jungle Tyranny. The vagaries of U.S. policy, to whose tune the banana dictators dance, helped tyrants hang on. Last winter, when Spruille Braden's blasts against tyranny were loudest, Dictators Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua and Tiburcio Carías Andino of Honduras behaved almost like gentlemen. Jail doors swung open, the press spoke up, elections were promised. Now rumor whispered that Bradenism was on the way out (vigorously denied in Washington last week) and the Strong Boys were strutting again...
...Nicaragua, there was no sign yet that Somoza had lost his ability to out-trick the slow-witted opposition. He had ample reason to hang on. Even if the Government was broke, Somoza enterprises were booming. Public-works employes kept up the dictator's cattle ranches. The National Railway had just built him an ice plant. His latest haul: an $85,000 profit on surplus goods from the U.S. Navy's [former] Corinto base...
Nicaragua's Dictator-President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza dined with his family at Montelimar, his big Pacific Coast finca (plantation...
This week, as Somoza's Cabinet resigned, Nicaraguans demonstrated against him, hoped to rid the country of him. Tough, cocky Dictator Somoza had been talking about withdrawing his candidacy for next November's presidential elections. His plan: elect a stooge, run the country as commandant of the National Guard, thus keep some 51 cattle ranches, 46 coffee haciendas and other trophies of his years in office...