Word: somozaism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Ambassador William Dawson, U.S. representative to the Pan American Union, said last week that the U.S. wanted Nicaragua at the Bogota conference, Washington's latinos guessed that the U.S. was at last ready to recognize Dictator Somoza's government. They were wrong. Later, to shut off the guessing, white-haired Ambassador Dawson telephoned 17 embassies (but not the Costa Rican, Honduran or Dominican, whose governments recognized Somoza last year) and made it clear that inviting a neighbor to a neighborhood powwow did not mean approval of the way the neighbor acted...
Meanwhile Colombia, the conference host, had popped off and granted Somoza recognition. Most Latin American republics would probably soon follow Colombia's lead. If such a bandwagon started rolling, the U.S. might have to climb aboard, no matter whether it liked all the passengers...
...Homeland. Betancourt got a quick answer. Roman y Reyes (whose nephew, Dictator Anastasio Somoza, really runs Nicaragua) soon cabled back that the planes had been confiscated, the Venezuelans arrested. Said he: "These planes will not leave Nicaraguan territory to attack the noble homeland of Bolivar...
...Somoza's Gain. The only one who seemed to have gained anything out of the fizzled blitz was Nicaragua's wily "Tacho" Somoza. Last week, he had let out a howl that Nicaraguan revolutionaries in Guatemala were planning to bomb his capital. Now he himself had two four-engined bombers-a tidy air force for Central America. Somoza solemnly thundered, through his mouthpiece and stooge, uncle Roman y Reyes, that the planes would "be used only to defend the soil of Nicaragua and its legitimate government" against attacks from Guatemala...
Apparently Somoza was only trying to smoke out a plot that was being hatched across the border, but Arevalo had no intention of being used as a smudge pot. "Absolutely false," he replied coldly. Old Nicaraguan Rebel Emiliano Chamorro, who is now in Guatemala, took time off from his scheming to add his own sardonic comment. "Our efforts are confined to diplomacy," he said. "Somoza, scared by his own crimes, has a persecution complex and is trying to escape attention by making fantastic accusations to justify a wave of terror in Nicaragua...