Somoza
Americannoun
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A team led by Melanie Köhler and Veronika Somoza from the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology has presented a new research approach in the journal Nature Food.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2024
Former Nicaraguan leader Anastasio Somoza didn’t have to downgrade too much when he fled the presidential palace in 1979.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2023
A stream of regional leaders have called the state home, at least for a time, over the past half century, from Haiti’s Prosper Avril to Nicaragua’s Anastasio Somoza to Panama’s Manuel Noriega.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2023
Leftist guerrilla organizations fought against the dictatorship of the Somoza family, which ruled until the late 1970s.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Somoza was long gone, the contras were nothing but a memory.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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