Somoza Debayle
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Anastasio 1925–80, Nicaraguan army officer, businessman, and political leader: president 1967–72, 1974–79 (brother of Luis Somoza Debayle).
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Luis 1922–67, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1957–63.
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Reichler considers Ortega “even more effective” at stifling opposition than Anastasio Somoza Debayle had been.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2022
In the nineteen-seventies, he and Ortega were comrades, leaders of the insurrection against the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, whose family had run the country for four decades.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018
Lawrence Pezzullo, an American diplomat who brokered the 1979 resignation of Nicaraguan strongman Anastasio Somoza Debayle, whose family had ruled the country for more than four decades, died July 26 at his home in Baltimore.
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2017
Mr. Ortega, the president, is a 70-year-old former guerrilla who played a leading role in the Sandinista revolution that toppled Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the dictator whose family ruled here from the 1930s to 1979.
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2016
The offer was significant because all four are prominent Nicaraguans who had been active in the insurrection against Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, were once colleagues of the Sandinistas and today live in exile.
From Time Magazine Archive
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