Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan
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Josh Beutel, Telegraph Journal, 1979-7-9
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Reference number: MC2806-116
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Scope and Content
How opposition to the United States makes unlikely allies is illustrated by Anastasio Somoza Debayle of Nicaragua sitting at a desk on tracks, eating bananas and awaiting a prospective middle-east, American antagonist..
Title
Somaza
Caption
"El Presidente, the Shah is here to see you…"
Persons
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
- Born December 5, 1925
- Died September 17, 1980
- Officially the President of Nicaragua, May 1, 1967 to May 1, 1972 and December 1, 1972 to July 17, 1979
- Earthquake December, 1972 - Debayle declared martial law. Accused of pocketing aid money
- The Sandinista Front escalated its guerrilla war against the Somozas during his tenure
- Had maintained power with support from the United States, who saw Nicaragua as a stronhold against Communism. Jimmy Carter withdrew his support for the regime after 1972
- Abandoned power in 1979, fled to Miami. Sandinistas took control
- Assassinated in Paraguay at the age of 54