Word: somozaism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene was much the same at Tachito Somoza's hilltop estate in Managua's El Retiro section. Nicaraguan generals, journalists and crew-cut American hucksters panting to sell prefab housing units milled about one day last week waiting for an audience with the general. Somoza's American wife Hope, a striking woman dressed in a red bandanna, print blouse and tight black slacks, directed Red Cross activities from beneath a shade tree. The mood was relaxed and restrained-even though 3,000 Managuans are known to be dead, another 4,000 were buried alive when the earthquake...
...some cases, the U.S. effort has not been as effective or as widely noticed as it might be. While a 185-man Army medical team from the 21st Evacuation Hospital based in Fort Hood, Texas, operated in a barbed-wire-enclosed compound in a meadow in front of Somoza's El Retiro residence, a team of 50 Cuban doctors and paramedics worked in the densely populated Managua barrio of Máximo Jérez. The result was that while U.S. medics were seeing 250 patients per day, Cubans were treating about...
...most about the possible political aftershocks of the big quake. Since Franklin Roosevelt pulled out the Marines in 1933, ending 25 years of more or less direct U.S. intervention in the country, Nicaragua has lived in reasonable contentment under the strong but benevolent and relatively progressive rule of the Somozas-first Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Garcia, an adventurer who was cut down by an assassin in 1956, then his son Luis (who died in 1967) and now Luis' brother Tachito...
...from immediately succeeding himself to a second five-year term as President, So moza last spring relinquished power for 2½ years to a three-man junta. Though the junta is headed by a compliant mem ber of the Conservative opposition, it is in fact controlled by its two Somoza loyalists, both members of his Liberal Party. They would keep the general's place warm until 1974, when he was to come down from the bleachers and run for another five-year presidential term...
...running the country under martial law, he is fully visible. Once again, he has become the target of rival politicians, restive students and even some businessmen who resent his one-man rule. "He has everything now," complains Javier Zavala, editor of a pro-Conservative paper. To a large extent, Somoza's future now depends on how he deals with the problems of reconstructing the city...