Dictators and the Press
Goff, Fred
President Anastasio Somoza, the Nicaraguan dictator, is attempting to bolster his image by local press coverage which portrays his rP.dezvous with ni.btr o prcmient I.i ricrns. Photos taken from...
...Photos taken from Nicaraguan newspapers reveal the identities of some of his recent visitors...
...He deployed large amounts of money to finance elaborate receptions for prominent American visitors...
...NACIA has heard that the Somoza family is one of New York's major slum lords...
...CHICAGO CONFERENCE Name Address I plan to attend the conference ($5.00 registration fee enclosed) I cannot attend but I want to receive the working papers...
...Both the Somoza and Trujillo families have also attempted to control Spanish public opinion in the United States through their joint ownership of El Tiempo, one of the two leading New York City Spanish dailies...
...A. W. ioursend, Texas lawyer, former county judge in Johnsonts home, Blanco County (and long-time personal friend of the Johnsons), Director of Texas Broadcasting Co...
...lobbied for Trujillo (for a fee of $60,000), Richard NTixon, Senator Ellender (D-La...
...Banking Board since 1955...
...Stanley Ross, the editor of E Tiempo is the for- mer editor of Trujillo's El Caribe...
...of Canada...
...and ex-Director of Superior Oil Co...
...Other part owners of El Tiempo include Fulgencio Batista, former Cuban dictator, and Nicholas Biddle Duke, member of the tobacco fortune family (and relative of the current U.S...
...WE would appreciate further information concerning this rumor...
...since 1940 and a director of the Coca Cola Co., a member of the .Y...
...and Cardinal Spellman, who praised the regime for its religious and anti-Communist policies...
...Amabssador to Spain...
...James A. Farley, Chair- man of the Board of Coca Cola Export Co...
...Sat._ nights (bring sleeping bags...
...Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, former Dominican dictator, engaged in a similar game of imagemaking...
...Among those whose pictures and names appeared in the press were: irs...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, whose son Franklin Jr...
...hake checks payable to U. of Chicago SDS and mail to: University of Chicago SDS, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637...
...Among them are : William Keck Jr., President of Superior Oil Co...
...I will need housing for Fri...
...of Austin), Director, Johnson City Bank...
Vol. 1 • October 1967 • No. 8
