Somoza

[saw-maw-sah; English suh-moh-zuh, -moh-suh]

noun

A·nas·ta·sio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/, Anastasio Somoza García, 1896–1956, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1937–47, 1950–56 (father of Anastasio and Luis Somoza Debayle).

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It was regarded as so deeply onerous that the dictator Anastasio “Tachito” Somoza abolished it in 1970.
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