Word: tachito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tacho is in on virtually all new businesses starting in the country. Last fortnight he made a new deal for a percentage in a flour mill. He runs the salt and match monopolies, gets a percentage from the electric power companies. Lately, son Tachito has been cut in on the gravy. He got a 40% share in a new airline hauling mining machinery from the U.S. and meat to Cuba. When a Nicaraguan worked up a profitable new business shipping monkeys to the U.S., Tachito heard about it. Now a Somoza is in monkey business...
...other hand, found that Leonardo Argüello, the stooge he had got elected, did not intend to be a stooge. Argüello began calling on Guardia officers to declare their loyalty to him. Almost half of them did. Then Argüello overreached himself: he gave Tachito Somoza a dressing down, banished him from the capital. Papa Tacho moved in. Argüello fled to the Mexican embassy, then to Mexico, where he died. Growled Tacho, who finally decided that Uncle Victor Román y Reyes was a safe man for the presidential palace: "Some...
...Said Son Tachito ("little Tacho"), captain in the National Guard: "Papa, you had better abandon the Presidency while the leaving is good. The people are in an ugly mood, and we have enough money...
Papa, furious, struck Tachito, shouted: "Remember, as an officer of the National Guard you're under military discipline. I'll put you under arrest...
...Tachito was not arrested...