Word: somozaism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TROOPS OF Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle's National Guard attempt to pound the widespread popular opposition to his rule into submission, the time has come for the United States government to re-examine its relations with the Somoza regime...
...Cross estimates that more than five hundred people have died and another one thousand have been injured since the Guard began its comprehensive effort to quell the latest and most signifigant round of opposition activity. The large number of civilian victims underlines Somoza's single-minded drive to retain control over the economy that his family dominates. The Nicaraguan dictator and his family own over a quarter of the Central American country's arable land, and Somoza has scorned considerations of human rights in order to protect his agricultural and industrial wealth. Arguments put forth by American supporters of Somoza...
...pressure for Somoza's resignation is not, as he claims, generated solely by a band of Marxist revolutionaries. The Sandanista Front of National Liberation (FSLN) champions an effort that encompasses virtually every element of the population of this small Central American country--from businessmen to industrialists to religious leaders to peasants. The mass of poor Nicaraguans see the multi-millionaire Somoza as the chief cause of their poverty. The Roman Catholic Church, hardly a bastion of Marxism and a long-time opponent of the dictatorship, has reiterated its plea for an end to the Somoza family's rule...
...fact, leaders of the rebel seizure of the National Palace on August 22 claimed that part of their motivation for stepping up guerilla activity was the attitude of President Carter. They cited an August 1 letter from Carter to Somoza praising him for allowing the Organization of American States to survey the human rights situation in Nicaragua...
...Somoza must go," a stunned woman said. "Only a madman would do something like this. We are not Communists here. Just common people," she added...