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Central America's heady unrest swept into Nicaragua, rippled ominously around the white hilltop palace of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. In his spacious office, flanked by two ack-ack guns, a grand piano and a juke box, shrewd "Tacho" Somoza might well wonder if the jig were up. For seven years he had been Central America's most genial, least bloodthirsty dictator. But he had made all Nicaragua his racket, with opéra-bouffe trimmings. He had justified his record with a plaintive: "Godammit, I want to make sure that my family has enough to live on after...
Subsecretary Somoza's slick, smiling, kinetic personality won over U.S. Minister Matthew Elting Hanna. His graceful dancing entranced Mrs. Hanna. The Americans pushed Tacho's fortunes, were gratified when President Moncada put him at the head of the National Guard. In good time, Tacho used the National Guard to liquidate his most formidable rival: Augusto Sandino, the pint-sized, ferocious patriot whose ragged guerrillas never yielded to the U.S. Marines. In 1936, Tacho took the Presidency for himself in a phony election, won immediate U.S. recognition...
...Dictators' Club" of Central America to half its former membership. Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez of El Salvador fell last May before a popular strike which set the pattern for Guatemala. The two survivors, Dictator Tiburcio Carías of Honduras and Dictator Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua, were seriously threatened by the wave of unarmed strikes sweeping Latin America...
...Tacho" Somoza of Nicaragua also extended his term illegally, also faced rebellion. Last week he suppressed a demonstration of students and citizens by shooting a few and arresting over 200. Across the Costa Rican border waited thousands of Nicaraguans, eager for a chance to invade their own country. Last week Dictator Somoza received 18 Lend-Lease airplanes from the U.S. They may aid him militarily, but cannot help him against the non-violent but powerful pressure of a brazos caídos strike...
Nicaragua's President Anastasio Somoza keeps his turbulent people in line with the help of a well-paid, wellarmed, brutal National Guard (originally trained by U.S. Marines who occupied the country in 1926). Governing more by corruption than by violence, he gets a financial cut on nearly every profitable enterprise in the country. Loudly "pro-democratic," he stands well with the U.S. Government...