Word: somozaism
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...places on earth deserve a break more than Nicaragua does. For most of the last century, it was devastated by natural disasters like the massive 1972 Managua earthquake, brutalized by the Somoza family dictatorship and then betrayed by the venal incompetents of the Sandinista Front even as it was scarred by the U.S.-backed ontra war of the 1980s. But as the Western hemisphere's third poorest nation goes to the polls this Sunday to elect a new president, it looks set to prolong if not worsen its misery - thanks, in part, to Washington's failure to give Nicaragua...
...polls is former President Daniel Ortega - the leftist Sandinista whom Nicaraguans tossed out in 1990 after he presided over a civil war-torn decade of Marxist authoritarianism and economic disaster. Ortega was a bona fide guerrilla hero who had helped lead the Sandinista insurrection that overthrew the tyrant Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. But Ortega proved to be a clueless and corrupt head of state, and after his 1990 electoral humiliation, he had looked set for the Cold War scrap heap. He failed in presidential bids in 1996 and 2001, and in 1998 his stepdaughter, Zoilamerica Narvaez, accused...
...Somoza Jimenez: This Spanish architect proposes a cluster of steel-monuments inspired by the towering rock formations along Thailand's southern coast. The towers, whose tapering, segmented shapes recall pagodas or temples, would house a museum and other functional spaces...
...llez—who helped overthrow Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza during the Sandinista revolution of the 1980s—had applied for a student visa to study English at the University of San Diego, but after it was denied in January, she decided not to seek a visa allowing her to teach...
Americans consider themselves "preservers of freedom." However, throughout this century, dictators such as Anastasio Somoza, Ferdinand Marcos, Augusto Pinochet, Fulgencio Batista, Mobuto Sese Seko, "Papa" and "Baby Doc" Duvalier and dozens of others were supported by the U.S. and its "G.I. Joes." Don't forget those who were killed by America's "heroes." CARLOS F. ST. SOARES Rio de Janeiro...