Word: somozaism
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With Whelan and the late Dictator Anastasio Somoza it was "Tommy" and "Tacho" from the start, and the friendship deepened as they partied, played poker, junketed around the country together. Tacho was shot and critically wounded by an assassin in 1956, and it was his friend Tommy Whelan who arranged to fly the dying dictator to a U.S. hospital in the Panama Canal Zone. He was succeeded by his sons, President Luis Somoza and Army Chief Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza...
...Tacho to allow Nicaragua a little democracy, but then he would quickly agree with Tacho that Nicaraguans were politically too immature for much freedom. Whelan claims a little more success with Luis and Tachito. After his father's death, Tachito was bent on killing the enemies of the Somozas when Ambassador Whelan convinced his friend that this might be going too far. He also encouraged Luis to put through a law prohibiting any member of the Somoza family from succeeding him to the presidency...
...tolerating Fidel Castro, the big powers repeat their 1932 mistake of tolerating Hitler. Castro, Somoza and Trujillo all justify their crimes with the claim of defending the people. Castro openly murders (official word: executes) hundreds of those who dare to have different opinions, but strangely, everybody sees only the villainies of the other two. Is it because when they kill, they do not make a public show...
...calling cards: "Forty-five rebels want to surrender. They have laid down their guns. Please don't come in shooting." A Guard patrol surrounded the house, took the surrender. Three days later Medina's holdout leader, Pedro Joaquln Chamorro, editor-owner of Managua's anti-Somoza La Prensa, also gave himself up. That left 38 rebels still at large, scattered through the hills near the Olama River 65 miles northeast of Managua...
...rebels had overestimated their own toughness and underestimated the Somoza boys' strength, which included a well trained and loyal army, reliable reservists, and the neutrality of the urban and rural masses. Most Nicaraguans apparently are not interested in overthrowing President Luis, who has been liberalizing the dictatorship he inherited from his assassinated father, tough old Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...