Word: somozaism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua--President Anastasio Somoza's government, claiming near victory against rebels in the north, said yesterday that Venezuela had thrown its military support behind the insurgents, sending warplanes to back a rebel attack in the south...
...Somoza's national guard, headquartered in Manila, said its forces had completely retaken the northern city of Leon, the nation's second largest city...
...guard also said government troops were fighting rebels in Chinandega and Esteli. The rebels, led by guerrillas of the leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front, launched a general uprising last weekend in an effort to oust Somoza...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua--The Anastasio Somoza dictatorship came full circle yesterday when it imposed military censorship on the country's only national opposition paper, La Prensa. The January 10 assassination of La Prensa's publisher, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, set off the current wave of anti-Somoza violence, in which at least 500 persons have been killed and 1000 wounded this week...
...Somoza mobilized national guard reserves yesterday to throw into the fight against rebels in at least seven Nicaraguan cities...