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
Between 1967 and 1974, Ortega himself was imprisoned by Nicaragua’s Somoza family dictatorship.
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 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
Like millions of mainly poor Nicaraguans, he had supported the Sandinista National Liberation Front when it overthrew the Somoza dynasty that had ruled the nation for decades.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 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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