Word: somozaism
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...military coup d'etat by Nicaragua's "strong man", General Somoza, brings the problem of Latin American policy again into the foreground. With the Pan-American Congress scheduled for the near future, with $13,000,000 investments and a ninety-year option on the Nicaragua canal route at stake, the delicate problem of recognition becomes of paramount interest, particularly since under the Central American treaty of peace and amity of 1923 we are unable to recognize a ruler who comes to power by a coup d'etat...
...week and announced that he had the papers that entitled him to leadership of Sandino's followers. Cried he: "I have ten generals and 1,500 armed men ready to take the field at the order of President Sacasa against the dictatorship now in control of the country [Somoza...
...representative of Sandino, seemed to have inside knowledge: ". . . His automobile was halted by a group of 25 guardsmen led by Lieut. Antonio Lopez. 'I have orders to shoot you,' Lopez said. 'Why?' asked Sandino. 'I am sure there must be some mistake. Telephone General Somoza and see if there is not a mistake.' The lieutenant telephoned Somoza. He returned and told Sandino that he was to be shot in accordance with superior orders. Sandino, Estrada and Umanzor [his two favorite generals] were then taken to a place where a grave had been dug some...
Then Dentist Zepeda set a match to Nicaragua's prime emotion: suspicion of the U. S., of which Sandino was hero and symbol. "I am suspicious," said Zepeda, "of the fact that the U. S. Minister to Nicaragua Arthur Bliss Lane had luncheon with General Somoza only a few hours before Sandino was assassinated by Somoza's National Guardsmen." Well-known is the fact that Somoza has potent friends among the U. S. citizens in Nicaragua, as has President Sacasa...
...formerly of Nicaragua's National Guard, was landed last week at Manhattan's Ellis Island from the S. S. Santa Ana. A Costa Rican newshawk had somehow gotten and published a story that Gonzalez had bragged of killing Sandino on ''direct written orders from General Somoza...