Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NICARAGUA. In office since 1963, President René Schick, 56, works in the shadow of the Somoza brothers, Tachito and Luis, who control the country's military and much of its wealth. Schick and the Somozas are development-minded, however, and since 1961 their small (pop. 1,600,000) country's G.N.P. has increased by a phenomenal 40%, highest sustained growth in Central America. From the Alliance for Progress has come $30 million for such projects as construction of 350 miles of roads to stimulate dairy and beef production, reduce dependence on cotton. Foreign investors have teamed with...
...Cried Bosch: "The next President must take a suit before the World Court in The Hague, asking $1 billion in damages from the U.S., so the interventions will never occur again." As for other members of the OAS peace force, Bosch demanded $100 million from Brazil, $20 million from Nicaragua and $1 million from Paraguay, "a poor country...
...hemisphere." Fourteen nations now have tax and land reforms under way; ten nations have submitted full-dress development programs for Alianza study. As an overall result, Latin America's gross national product has spurted steadily higher over the past four years, rising as much as 40% in Nicaragua...
Everyone was agreed upon one thing: the invasion would have no chance of success unless Castro's own little air force was knocked out beforehand. Kennedy gave permission for Cuban-piloted B-26s, flown out of Nicaragua nearly 600 miles from Cuba, to strike at Castro's airstrips on April 15, two days before the actual invasion. An elaborate "cover" story-to the effect that the planes were actually flown by defectors from Castro's own air force-was devised. As Sorensen says, the B-26s were "World War II vintage planes possessed by so many nations...
...unmarked Navy jets could protect the B-26s when they provided the cover the next morning." Schlesinger elaborates a bit: the President authorized "a flight of six unmarked jets from the Carrier Essex over the invasion area . . . Their mission would be to cover a new B-26 attack from Nicaragua. They were not to seek air combat or ground targets, but could defend the Cuban brigade's planes from air attack...