NICARAGUAN COUP
BLOODLESS REVOLT GOVERNMENT SEIZED EX-PRESIDENT'S MOVE (11.50 a.m.) PANAMA CITY, May 27. The Nicaraguan Army, led by a former President, General Anastasio Somoza, seized control of the Government today by apparently a bloodless coup d’etat, according to fragmentary reports from Managua. There is no news' of President Leonardo Arguello, who was inaugurated on May 1 after his election on February 2 as a candidate of General Somoza s own Liberal Party. General Somoza, who has ruled Nicaragua as Chief of State for 10 years, retained control of the army ana apparently engineered the coup when President Arguello refused to act as a rubber stamp. President Arguello. when inaugurated on May 1, had declared he would eliminate the army's influence in politics.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22341, 28 May 1947, Page 5
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123NICARAGUAN COUP Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22341, 28 May 1947, Page 5
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