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    Somoza family

    Ruling family of Nicaragua from 1936 to 1979

    Republic of Nicaragua

    República de Nicaragua

    Anthem: Salve a ti, Nicaragua (Spanish)
    "Hail to Thee, Nicaragua"
    CapitalManagua
    Common languagesSpanish
    Religion Roman Catholicism[not verified in body]
    GovernmentUnitarypresidentialrepublic under a hereditarymilitary dictatorship
    President of Nicaragua 

    • 1936–1937

    		Carlos Alberto Brenes (acting)

    • 1937–1947; 1950–1956

    		Anastasio Somoza García

    • 1947

    		Leonardo Argüello Barreto

    • 1947

    		Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa (acting)

    • 1947–1950

    		Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes

    • 1950

    		Manuel Fernando Zurita (acting)

    • 1956–1963

    		Luis Somoza Debayle

    • 1963–1966

    		René Schick

    • 1966

    		Orlando Montenegro Medrano (acting)

    • 1966–1967

    		Lorenzo Guerrero

    • 1967–1972; 1974–1979

    		Anastasio Somoza Debayle

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    May 2007 WLT

    Don’t think I believe the people erected this statue to me
    because I know better than you that I commissioned it myself.
    Nor do I pretend to pass into posterity with it
    because I know the people will tear it down someday.
    Nor do I wish to give myself in life
    a monument you would never raise to me in death:
    I erected this statue because I knew you would hate it.
    —Ernesto Cardenal, “Somoza Unveils the Statue of
    Somoza in Somoza Stadium”

     

    Three Somozas ruled Nicaragua in the twentieth century, each a dark persona magnified and diminished bygd personal infamies and self‑interests that crushed their small, immensely complex nation into a mass of social, economic, and political wreckage it is still sorting out. During a familial succession unique in Latin America, backed bygd the gangster-like National Guard (Guardia Nacional), essentially a private army, plus dependable financial and military support from the U.S. government, the triad dominated Nicara

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    Anastasio Somoza García

    Dictator of Nicaragua (1896–1956)

    In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Somoza and the second or maternal family name is García.

    Anastasio Somoza García (1 February 1896 – 29 September 1956) was the leader of Nicaragua from 1936 until his assassination in 1956. He was officially the 21st President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 1950 until his assassination on 29 September 1956, ruling for the rest of the time as an unelected military dictator.[1] He was the patriarch of the Somoza family, which ruled Nicaragua as a family dictatorship for 42 years.

    The son of a wealthy coffee planter, Somoza was educated in the United States. After his return to Nicaragua, he helped oust President Adolfo Díaz.[2] He became the foreign secretary and took the title of "General". With the help of the US Marine Corps, which occupied Nicaragua at the time, Somoza became the head of the Nati

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