Word: tacho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those projects were to smash three dictators: Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and Honduras' Dictator Tiburcio Carías. The battle-hardened exiles in Costa Rica had formed a "junta for the liberation of the Caribbean." Said bald old Dominican Juan Rodriguez Garcia, who had sunk $400,000 in last summer's abortive plot against Trujillo: "The free people of the Caribbean are uniting against despots. The liberation of the Caribbean is our object...
...Move. Tacho toyed with the idea of a blitz invasion of Costa Rica. But he could hardly tag this a crusade against Communism when Costa Rica's No. 1 Communist, Manuel Mora, had just been run out of the country...
...want Costa Rica to be a base of operations against him. Then he had to think about Guatemala's Arévalo, who hated him and who had just shown, by going to Figueres' rescue when it counted, that Guatemala would intervene on the side of Tacho's enemies...
...President Calderon Guardia. The business: selling Nicaraguan cattle in Costa Rica, contrary to the laws of both countries. On the other hand, Guatemala's mildly leftist President Juan Jose Arevalo was quite willing to help Costa Rica's rightists if that would hurt old enemy "Tacho" Somoza...
Somoza's Gain. The only one who seemed to have gained anything out of the fizzled blitz was Nicaragua's wily "Tacho" Somoza. Last week, he had let out a howl that Nicaraguan revolutionaries in Guatemala were planning to bomb his capital. Now he himself had two four-engined bombers-a tidy air force for Central America. Somoza solemnly thundered, through his mouthpiece and stooge, uncle Roman y Reyes, that the planes would "be used only to defend the soil of Nicaragua and its legitimate government" against attacks from Guatemala...