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Whose Affair? Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza affected bland surprise: "I'm told Calderon Guardia invaded Costa Rica-but that's his affair. We're guarding our frontier." Actually Calderon had issued his revolutionary proclamation in Managua, Tacho's capital. Dissident Costa Ricans had been training openly at Rivas in southern Nicaragua. Costa Rican intelligence sources reported concentrations of troops and barges at San Juan del Sur on Tacho's Pacific coast and Bluefields on the Caribbean...
...Tacho had chosen his side in Costa Rica during last spring's civil war. With angry frustration he had watched Figueres...
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...
...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...