Word: somozaism
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...entire building, and the board, after examining his references and his tax forms, can reject him without even troubling to give a reason. Supplicants before a co-op board--people who ordinarily may be contentious or even fearsome--accept this treatment without a peep. Now that characters like Somoza and Trujillo and Stroessner have passed from the scene, Americans who live in other cities may get the impression that the exercise of totally capricious and untrameled power is drying up in this hemisphere, but New Yorkers of a certain station understand that co-op boards will always be with them...
...with the Castro regime. Let's set the record straight. Canada entered the fight against tyranny in World Wars I and II long before the U.S. did. As for aiding and abetting tyranny, the U.S.--not Canada--has supported such despots as Batista in Cuba, Papa Doc in Haiti, Somoza in Nicaragua and Pinochet in Chile, plus others elsewhere around the globe. The list goes on and on. Enough hypocrisy. DAVID KOS Salt Spring Island, British Columbia...
...profession that is getting a black eye, in the view of some of the old-guard paparazzi. "I treat celebrities with respect, like I would like to be treated myself," says New York City photographer Gerardo Somoza. "Some of these photographers couldn't shoot their way out of a paper bag. They are carrying video cameras because they are a sure thing and shows like Hard Copy buy that stuff...
...days, Franklin Roosevelt could say (or so it is said) of Anastasio Somoza, "He's a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch." No longer. With the end of the great ideological wars, we could stop propping up our sons of bitches: our Somozas, our Trujillos, our Nguyen Cao Kys. We could subordinate foreign policy to morality, something Americans have hungered to do since Woodrow Wilson suggested the idea to an incredulous world almost a century...
This is an Administration that prefers strongmen and dictators. Nothing entirely new here, but at least in the past we supported the likes of Somoza and Marcos in the name of anticommunism. What is the excuse now? One of Bush's favorite dictators is Deng Xiaoping, a communist whose specialty is the repression of democratic (and fervently pro-American) forces. Even the massacre at Tiananmen Square seems to have had little effect on the President's regard for Deng, except for requiring some circumspection, given the heavy domestic opposition to Bush's policy of appeasement...