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...want to treat everybody good," says Tacho, wide-eyed. "I once told F.D.R. about democracy in Central America. Democracy down here is like a baby-and nobody gives a baby everything to eat right away. I'm giving 'em liberty-but in my style. If you give a baby a hot tamale, you'll kill...
...Never Miss." Though Tacho runs Nicaragua, he has a stooge President, 76-year-old Dr. Victor Román y Reyes, who happens to be his uncle. Tacho does not live in the presidential palace, but in a grey fortresslike place known as La Curva on the volcanic rim above Managua...
...hours Tacho talks with pleaders, politicians, hangers-on. If he agrees to a proposal and gives an order then & there, the proposal will be carried out. If he says he'll think it over, he'll forget about it. If he asks for a memo he'll never read it. When his office work is done, he goes to look at the cattle on his Mercedes ranch down the lake shore from Managua. "I'm no politico," says Tacho, without batting an eyelash. "I'm a farmer...
...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...
...Says Tacho: "We Nicaraguans are a Spanish and Indian mixture, and that's dynamite. Give us a finger and we take a hand. Give us a hand and we take...