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Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza passed the word: one nation after another was recognizing the government of his uncle, President Victor Román y Reyes, which he put in power last August without an election. He listed them: Costa Rica, Honduras, the Dominican Republic of Fellow-Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay. If enough of the American republics gave him the right hand of fellowship, he felt that the U.S. would follow. That would again make him a member in good standing in the Pan-American nations club...
...mourners followed his body from the funeral parlor on the Paseo de la Reforma to the Spanish Cemetery on the city's outskirts. That was not many for the ex-President of Nicaragua whom thousands damned last January when he took office as a stooge of Dictator Somoza, praised last spring when he cut loose to give Nicaragua a brief moment of honest government, mourned last May when the dictator deposed...
...ello's death in exile had its measure of victory. The fight against Somoza would go on. Most American nations would continue to refuse diplomatic recognition to Bad Neighbor Somoza. For his few months of defiance, Argüello himself might even become a symbol of freedom...
...Since last January I have rushed southward three times into Central America in answer to five-alarm calls. I have stood stock still in Managua's central plaza howling Periodista! Periodista! (Journalist! Journalist!) at a platoon of General Somoza's guardia who were charging across with bayonets fixed. I have smudged my nose on San Jose's cold pavements when police fired in the general direction of a mob of which I, unhappily, was one. All in vain. Somehow or other the revolutions don't seem to carry through down here any more...
...capital, Tegucigalpa, sits General Carias, whose jails are still full of political prisoners. He glares at you out of a heavy, wooden face and asks: 'Why do you write such terrible things about me? Why do you do it?' Up on the hill in Managua is General Somoza, who kicks presidents in & out of office, at will. He greets you with a big smile and an abrazo and asks: 'Stanton, what can I do for you?' You talk about the political situation and he laughs at you and says: 'You know I have been good...