Word: somozaism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEEN MORE THAN 130 years since Cornelius Vanderbilt purchased exclusive right of way across the narrow strip of land that separates Atlantic and Pacific in Nicaragua. It has been 46 years since General Anastasio Somoza Garcia took control of the Nicaraguan National Guard from the United States Marines and promptly ordered the murder of nationalist hero Augusto Sandino. And it has been several months now since the front pages of America's newspapers sported gory tales of the thousands of civilian deaths that the same National Guard caused in the wake of the massive but unsuccessful popular uprising that racked...
...victims range from the scores of young men who have been picked up by the Guard only to turn up lifeless on some roadside the next morning, to the five children who tried two weeks ago to stage a hunger strike in support of the opposition to General Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the President and dictator, to the guy from Cedar Rapids who taught at the American school in Managua and was killed last weekend...
THIS EXODUS is part of a much wider American flight from the country, one that reflects, after 45 years of unwavering support for the corrupt Somoza family dynasty, the ambivalence which now characterizes Washington's attitude towards the aging general and his oppressive policies...
...Nicaragua, Spanish Missionary Gaspar Garcia Laviana sat inspecting a clutch of automatic rifles last October and told a visitor why he had become a firearms expert with the guerrillas who are fighting the Somoza dynasty: "I tried to save the situation in a Christian manner, in the pacifist sense of social promotion, but I realized that all this was a big trick." Two months later, the Nicaraguan National Guard announced that Garcia had been slain in combat...
...begin work on an agreement for the U.S. to purchase Mexico's oil and natural gas, and to ease the strains caused by the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. In Nicaragua, meanwhile, months of patient U.S. diplomacy were thrown into question when President Anastasio Somoza Debayle last week rejected a U .S. proposal for internationally supervised elections aimed at ending civil strife over his rule...