Word: somozaism
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...Sandinista regime. I think that, after more than 40 years of the Somoza dictatorship, the Nicaraguan people deserve something better than another dictatorship of the opposite extreme. In the long run, the consolidation of a Communist system in Nicaragua also becomes a threat to peace. I have no doubt that the Communist government of Nicaragua is not the best for my country. If there's one country the Sandinistas, given their expansionist ideology, must try to discredit as an oasis of democracy and peace, it is mine...
...occupation covering seven years in the 1920s and 1930s while the marines chased Augusto Cesar Sandino, Nicaraguans have come to feel they should be surprised by nothing the United States undertakes to do to them. When we were unable to catch up to Sandino, the Marines withdrew, installing the Somoza dynasty in their stead. The first Somoza caught up with Sandino almost immediately and had him assassinated...
...bring this country peace," Somoza I was reported to have said, "if I have to kill every other man in Nicaragua." Somoza I was followed by Somoza II and III, all supported politically and financially by the United States. The dynasty reached its fullest flower with Somoza III, who sold everything he could find in Nicaragua, including the blood of his fellow citizens, to the United States. The Somozas persevered until they were overthrown by Sandino's spiritual successors, the Sandinistas...
...works well. What is produced is the exact opposite of what is intended by the original anti-Communists. The Communists themselves cannot do it nearly as successfully. From Batista to Diem to Lon Nol to Somoza to Marcos and beyond, Communist subversion has not been as effective as American support...
Graham states that "if we had done something about Somaza's corrupt dictatorship in 1974 or 1977, we would not be where we are in 1987." He apparently does not recall that Luis Somoza Debayle began his corrupt and murderous regime with U.S. backing in 1956, and that his father, Anastasio Somoza (who ordered the assassination of Auigusto Cesar Sandino), was handed the dictatorship of Nicaragua by the U.S. Marines in 1937. In fact, if Mr. Graham laments the situation we find ourselves presently, perhaps he should explore the earliest episode of U.S. intervention in Nicaragua--the 1855 invasion...