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...general sailed his flat-brimmed, Pershing-style khaki campaign hat on to a table, and sagged into a chintz-covered chair. Scowling across the parlor of his Managua, hilltop mansion, Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza grumbled: "I did everything I could to prevent what is coming, but there's no way to keep the peace in Central America. For years Nicaragua's Guardia National has stood like a Chinese wall in Central America, stopping trouble from going north and south. God knows I'm a patient man, but there is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AMERICA: Wings over Tacho | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...Tacho") Somoza. Said Prío: "The anachronistic presence of dictators on our continent retards our progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: The Open Road | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...TIME did not say that the planes had been sent-merely that "Trujillo's mechanics were busy scraping the Dominican insignia off three P-38s . . . ticketed for Nicaragua." The tickets have apparently been canceled, temporarily. Meanwhile, Dictator Somoza of Nicaragua sends his two B-24s over to Dictator Trujillo whenever they need servicing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...That Arévalo. He hates me. I don't know why. Lord, he has troubles of his own in Guatemala-why bother to stick his nose into Nicaragua?" Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, who is proud of his English, paused abruptly and jabbed a fat finger into the stuffed Guatemalan quetzal that hung by his desk. "The quetzal-symbol of liberty or death to the Guatemalans," he snickered. "There are lots of tame ones in the Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: A Madhouse ... | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Smash three dictators-Somoza, Trujillo and Carias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress and the President | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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