Word: somoza
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...though the country had emerged from a coma. After the 46 years of suffering inflicted by the corrupt Somoza dynasty, a new spirit ruled the land. From the flagpole by the bunker in Managua where exiled Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle had commanded a bloody last stand fluttered the red-and-black banner of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). Even the sounds were different Gone was the stream of anti-Communist propaganda that had once poured from Somoza's radio station. In its place came round-the-clock broadcasts of revolutionary songs and tributes to General Cesar Augusto...
...middle-of-the-road course, promising elections, an economy based on a mixture of private and government enterprise, and an independent stance in foreign affairs. Although the junta remains united, there have been foreshadowings of an eventual breakdown in the alliance of radicals and moderates who combined to topple Somoza. Asked if he supported the junta's economic program, Minister of the Interior Tomás Borge Martinez, a guerrilla leader who denies that he is a Marxist, would only say: "In the beginning it is going to be a mixed economy." What might follow...
...born in the farming town of Masatepe (pop. 8,000); his parents were loyal members of the pro-Somoza Liberal Party. Ramírez was first exposed to opposition politics as a law student at the National University of Nicaragua in the early 1960s. After graduating, he took an administrative job at the Council of Central American Universities in Costa Rica and seemed to lose contact with the revolutionary movement. He did postgraduate work at the University of Kansas, where he learned English, and taught in West Germany before returning in 1974 to Costa Rica, where he joined the struggle...
...Central America called Do I Make You Afraid of Blood? and a biography of Augusto César Sandino. But Ramírez did not join the guerrillas who take their name from that Nicaraguan nationalist, who was slain in 1934 on the orders of the founder of the Somoza dynasty. Instead, with several priests, academics and businessmen, he founded the Group of Twelve, which sought to link the Sandinistas with less radical elements in the opposition to Tacho's government. Last year, for the first time in 14 years, he returned to Nicaragua as a political representative...
...knows that a cordial relationship with the U.S. might greatly aid the rebuilding of his country. The real question is whether he has the ability to mediate successfully between radical and conservative views in an untested coalition government whose main bond of unity is opposition to Somoza. "Sergio has all the qualities necessary to be very strong," says an associate. If that judgment is correct, Nicaragua may still be able to avoid the factionalism and violence that have marred so many revolutions...