Word: somozaism
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...authorities for survival, the geological tragedy became a human one. Shooting broke out frequently between troops and bands of looters who roamed the savaged city. Emergency hospitals set up to care for quake victims treated at least 32 Managuans for bullet wounds. In a radio broadcast, General Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza, 47, the strongman head of the family that has ruled Nicaragua for more than 30 years, despairingly said that his capital's biggest immediate problem was not hunger or the threat of disease but the "abominable beings" scouring the dead city...
Even as Managua still smoldered, the Somoza regime began pondering reconstruction. Money posed no great problem; the Nixon Administration, which is anxious to burnish Washington's tarnished image in Latin America, would almost certainly be eager to help bankroll the building of a new capital. But where? Managua was now a three-time loser, it was true, but Leon, the country's second city (pop. 50,000), also lies in an earthquake zone...
...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...