Topic: Anastasio Somoza
AP News | 2009-11-02 21:10:53
In Latin America, voters granting leaders more time in office to effect real change
Horrified by the excesses of dictatorship, Latin Americans discarded the strongman model at the end of the 20th century and limited politicians' time in power. Now a new wave of populist presidents is trying to do away with those limits, arguing they impede real change. As ...
Getty Images | 2009-08-27 14:09:57
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY BLANCA MORELJose Tomas Borge. aka "Don Bigote", 55, a former guerrilla member of the Sandinist Front of National Liberation (FSLN) during the war against Anastasio Somoza dictatorship (1967-1979), rests on his hammock in Tola ...
