Word: somozaism
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...about the same time, the Sandinista leadership was softening its own stance in hopes of an accommodation with the U.S. To a crowd of 75,000 celebrating the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra announced that his government "had decided to make a new effort to contribute to peace" and was willing to join in the multilateral regional discussions that the U.S. has sought. Ortega proposed a six-point peace plan that would prohibit arms sales to both the government and the rebels in El Salvador, as well as military...
...last Saturday's failed meeting, the four Nicaraguan dissidents had announced in San José an "initiative" to try to end the civil war in their own country. The offer was significant because all four are prominent Nicaraguans who had been active in the insurrection against Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, were once colleagues of the Sandinistas and today live in exile. The men are Arturo Cruz, the former junta member and Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington who quit in November 1981; Alfredo César, who like Cruz was once head of the central bank, and two other former government...
MARRIED. Anastasio Somoza ("Tachito") Portocarrero, 30, oldest son and onetime heir apparent to the late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle; and Marisa Celasco Oberholzer, 24, Salvadoran socialite daughter of a Swiss mother and Italian businessman father; both for the first time; in Miami...
...almost as soon as the victorious revolutionaries took power in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua in July 1979. Says the defector: "It took nine months to plan the operation. The arms that eventually went to El Salvador were first taken from our forces who fought against [Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle]. After the triumph, they were instructed to turn in their weapons, which were put in warehouses and held for shipment to El Salvador. Then it was discussed who would take them there. It was decided that the organization to run this was [Sandinista] military intelligence. As former guerrillas...
...Americans have visited Nicaragua since the Sandinistas overthrew Somoza, and what they have experienced in visiting the country is very different from their expectations," Treumann said...