Word: somozaism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nassau and from Nassau to Managua, this trip was not entirely secret. For the first time in over a decade, several people from the outside world actually met him. At the Managua airport just before he left, Hughes talked for more than an hour with Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza and U.S. Ambassador Turner B. Shelton...
...Shelton's account, he and Somoza climbed aboard Hughes' Gulfstream jet at about 10:40 p.m. "Hughes is quite tall and thin," Shelton said later. "He appeared in good health, was very affable. He shook hands twice, very vigorously. He looks like the old pictures of him, but a little older. His hair was cut normally. He is certainly an interesting man. He was very pleasant and gracious for my help in setting up the meeting. He thanked Somoza for his hospitality. He said he was off on a business trip...
...deep respect of American military men, with whom he has worked closely for years. His great victory was "Operation Hawk," in which the troops of his friend General Somoza (whose family has ruled Nicaragua for 34 years) and the U.S. Southern Command participated. (Thomas and Marjorie Melville, op. cit., p. 28) As the Vice President, Rojas, bragged in his magazine La Hara, at least one village was napalmed in this action. The guerrillas were driven...
...Anarchy. After his victory, the dapper Arana drove from his fortress-like home, usually guarded by 20 tough gunmen, to his National Liberation Movement headquarters in his ancient armor-plated, black-windowed limousine. The car was formerly owned by Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza, who was assassinated in 1956; its floor was stacked with submachine guns. To his followers, who were celebrating with marimba music and firecrackers, Arana pledged that when he takes over on July 1 from Méndez Montenegro* he would "put an end to the anarchy in which we have been living...