Word: tacho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement drew applause from other Latin nations. Even Trujillo's old ally, Nicaraguan Dictator "Tacho" Somoza, spoke up: "Nicaragua knows how to settle its problems with its neighbors through the inter-American peace machinery. It's a shame that the Dominican Republic can't handle its grievances that way." At week's end, Latin diplomats were laying odds that the point would not be lost on lonely Trujillo...
...weeks Nicaragua's foxy, folksy Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza toured his volcano-studded domain. Ostensibly, he was inspecting his Atlantic Highway (not yet completed) and the villages and towns along the Atlantic coast. Actually he was giving his local jejes (leaders) the word on 1951's presidential election. Tacho, who was President from 1937 to 1947, would like to be President again in name as well as in fact...
Last week, impressive in campaign khaki, Tacho returned to his dusty capital to a hero's welcome. Some 25,000 Liberal Party stalwarts, including Tacho's uncle and stooge, arthritic, old (76) President Victor Roman y Reyes, turned out to acclaim "our guide and presidential candidate." Said scheming Tacho: "If at the legal time of the election the people maintain the determination they have demonstrated today, I shall take the place the Liberal Party has ordered me to take...
...finca, which had recently rung with the none-too-rhythmic clump of marching Caribbean Legionnaires, silent peons spread coffee beans on the patio to dry in the warm tropical sun. The Legion was dead. It had been done in by the guile of its old enemy, Nicaragua's "Tacho" Somoza-and by the no-nonsense order of the Organization of American States (TIME, Jan. 3). The end had come before the Legion could fire a shot at Tacho or its other prime target, Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo...
...Tacho was still living by his iron creed: "Let them try anything. If they're tough enough to shove me out, then they and not I should be here...