Word: tacho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Macoy asked "Tacho" Somoza, who does control Nicaragua, just what part of the story wasn't true. "Oh, that stuff about me getting some money to pay somebody. That all came from the opposition, but I don't mind. Hell, when they (TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin) told me about doing a story, I said, 'Why bother about me? I'm a friend of the United States.' But they said they needed the story, so I said go ahead. Hell, that's a lotta propaganda - didn't cost me a penny...
...preparation for the story Correspondent Hannifin covered the ground thoroughly before undergoing the first of several interviews with Tacho, whom he found "a very tough and sentimental character, able and articulate under questioning, with what is undoubtedly the most calculating, retentive, audacious, and coldest mind in the Caribbean area." Before each interview Tacho would say: "Ask me anything, anything you want; I am opening my heart. Of course, I'm only a farm boy, not a politician...
...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 day I may meet Argüello in hell, and then I'll give...
Though a bit shocked at the casual way Tacho switched Presidents, the U.S. State Department recognized the regime (TIME, May 17). Thus Somoza was in a position to buy U.S. warplanes and to start closing the lead gained by Guatemala's air force during his stay in the doghouse. He was also busily spreading the word that the Guatemalans, the Caribbean Legion and everybody else conspiring against him were Communists...
...Tacho, his wide-brimmed campaign hat jammed on his balding head, was characteristically cheerful. "I like a fight," he roared. "I'm not afraid of anything ahead. If I didn't have the strength to stay here, then I'd get the hell...