Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late for me, but not for my son," says a Guatemala City market matron. Nicaragua's Emiliano Chamorro, a onetime President (1917-1920), and Augusto Cesar Sandino, a revolutionary general (1926-33), were the sons of market women. Other ladies of the market have seen their sons become doctors, lawyers and army officers. Says a U.S. AID official in Bolivia: "These women have social mobility. They are going to be a strong political force in this country...
Mexico 20.6 .3 20.9 Nicaragua...
Knowing the Niceties. Who is this all-important Dean? Well, he is Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, little Nicaragua's Ambassador to the U.S. By virtue of having served in Washington longer than any other foreign ambassador, Sevilla-Sacasa is the "Dean of the Corps." As such, he acts as adviser, style setter, protocol arbiter and ceremonial representative for the capital's entire ambassadorial corps. Dean since 1958, Sevilla-Sacasa attends about 600 official functions a year, greets every chief of state who visits Washington. To avoid contretemps, he has to remember the names, faces and precise protocol standings...
...Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. He went into exile, first in the U.S., then in France, where he became a convinced and highly disciplined Communist. Returning to Latin America in the 1920s, Machado helped found the Communist Party in Cuba, carried cash and medicines to guerrilla fighters in Nicaragua, worked with the Venezuelan Commu nist Party from exile on the Dutch island of Curacao. Eventually he kidnaped the Governor of Curasao, commandeered an American ship, and invaded his homeland...
...Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica...