Word: somoza
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...small city of Sweetwater, near Miami, for example, people of all stripes come from miles around to dine at Los Ranchos. Opened in 1981 by Julio Somoza, nephew of the former Nicaraguan President, the elegant establishment is a beef house in the best Latin tradition. The house specialty: churrasco, a center cut of tenderloin marinated in chimichurri -- fresh chopped parsley, olive oil, garlic and spices. On a Saturday night at Versailles, the undisputed palace of Cuban cooking in the heart of Little Havana, Anglo couples slurp mamey milk shakes made from a sweet tropical fruit, while Cuban workmen just...
...years, through good times and bad, the contras have been led by only one military commander: Enrique Bermudez, 55, a former colonel in deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza's National Guard. But peace, or at least the promise of it implicit in the 60-day cease-fire signed by the contras and Sandinistas in March, has triggered a power struggle that threatens not only Bermudez's leadership but also rebel unity. Unless quickly settled, the infighting could prevent further peace talks and leave the Sandinistas in an even stronger military position when the cease-fire expires at the end of this...
...group of rebels presented a nine-point petition calling for his resignation to the five-member directorate of the contras. Bermudez's ties with Somoza's dreaded National Guard have long been a source of friction within the contras, and some observers speculated that Adolfo Calero, a member of the directorate, may have encouraged the guerrilla revolt...
...former members of President Anastasio Somoza's National Guard who have been in prison since the Sandinista revolution of July 1979 will be released after a final truce is worked out. Under Somoza, the army was called the National Guard...
...years have been the most exciting and liberating for the world. Whole empires have fallen, new nations been created, people taken charge of their own lives. What Reagan meant is that all those little ss in the U.N. have been beating up on us for 40 years -- us, Somoza, us, Batista, us, Marcos. We've got to redefine...