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Anastasio Somoza
Anastasio Somoza , 1896-1956, president of Nicaragua (1937-47, 1950-56). After the end (1933) of U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua, he rose to power as head of the national guard. Though himself a member of the Liberal party, he engineered (1936) a successful coup against the incumbent Liberal... Read more
Luis Somoza Debayle
Luis Somoza Debayle , 1922-67, president of Nicaragua (1957-63). The oldest son of the dictator Anastasio Somoza , he was educated in the United States. He entered congress in 1950, became acting president (1956) upon the assassination of his father, and then president (1957). He liberalized his fa... Read more
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Anastasio Somoza Debayle , 1925-80, president of Nicaragua (1967-72, 1974—79). The younger son of dictator Anastasio Somoza , he was educated in the United States. He assumed command of the national guard at age 21 and was elected president in 1967. Barred from immediate reelection, he resign... Read more
Nicaragua
Nicaragua , officially Republic of Nicaragua, republic (2005 est. pop. 5,465,000), 49,579 sq mi (128,410 sq km), Central America. Nicaragua is bordered on the north and northwest by Honduras, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by Costa Rica, and on the southwest by the Pacific Ocean. The... Read more
Sandinistas
Sandinistas members of a left-wing Nicaraguan political party, the Sandinist National Liberation Front (FSLN). The group, named for Augusto Cesar Sandino , a former insurgent leader, was formed in 1962 to oppose the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle . In 1979 the Sandinistas launched an offensiv... Read more
Daniel Ortega Saavedra
Daniel Ortega Saavedra , 1945-, president of Nicaragua (1979-90, 2007-). As a university student, he joined (1963) the clandestine Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN; see Sandinistas ), a Marxist guerrilla coalition that opposed the Somoza dictatorship. In 1967, he was arrested and spent ... Read more
Augusto César Sandino
Augusto César Sandino , 1895-1934, Nicaraguan revolutionary general. A farmer and a mining engineer, he joined the liberal revolution (1926) against the conservative government headed by Adolfo Díaz and Emiliano Chamorro. He protested against the new U.S. intervention in Nicaragua in 1... Read more
Organization of American States
Organization of American States (OAS), international organization, created Apr. 30, 1948, at Bogotá, Colombia, by agreement of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, P... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Somoza"

Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Anastasio Somoza Debayle Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925-1980) became president of Nicaragua in an election...he was forced to flee to the United States in 1979. Anastasio Somoza Debayle was born in Leon, Nicaragua, on December 5, 1925...
Anastasio Somoza
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Anastasio Somoza The Nicaraguan dictator and military leader Anastasio Somoza (1896-1956) used his position as commander of...was a hated symbol to many democrats. Anastasio Somoza, born in San Marcos on Feb. 1, 1896, to Julia...
Luis Somoza Debayle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Luis Somoza Debayle , 1922-67, president of Nicaragua...The oldest son of the dictator Anastasio Somoza , he was educated in the United States...diversified his family's business interests. Somoza Debayle was an ardent anti-Communist...
Somoza García, Anastasio
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Somoza García, Anastasio (1896...1934, as director of the National Guard, Somoza had Augusto César Sandino killed...President Sacasa and assumed the presidency. Somoza created both a dictatorship and a political...
Daniel Ortega
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1963, helped lead its overthrow of the Somoza dynasty, and was elected president of...FSLN after 1969 and was captured by the Somoza regime's security forces in 1979. After...After the 1956 assassination of Anastasio Somoza Garcia, founder of the Somoza dynasty...
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Newspaper magnate, publicist, anti-Somoza leader, and titular head of the United...crushed by the ascension of Anastacio Somoza to dictatorial power in 1936. As a teenager...Prensa, maintained its role as an anti-Somoza forum. In 1950 he and Violeta married...
Sandinistas
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...political party. It was formed to oppose the Somoza family dynastic dictatorship, which ruled...Sandino was killed at the order of Anastacio Somoza Garcia, the head of the U.S.-formed Nicaraguan National Guard. In 1936 Somoza Garcia consolidated his political power...
Nicaragua
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...help defeat the rebels. In 1934 Anastasio Somoza , director of the National Guard, assassinated Sandino. Somoza became president in 1937. His dictatorial regime led to political isolation. Somoza was succeeded by his sons Luis (1956) and...
Nicaragua, U.S. Military Involvement in
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...and the Guardia Nacional under Anastasio Somoza became the most powerful military force...1934 by the Guardia Nacional. In 1936, Somoza formally took over all power in Nicaragua...American support until 1979, when the Somoza dictatorship was overthrown by the Sandinista...
Sandinista
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...They took their name from Augusto César Sandino, who opposed the dominant Somoza family and was killed in 1934. The Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, and formed a government led by Daniel Ortega . In power, they were...

Dictionary entries related to "Somoza"

Somoza
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Somoza A family dynasty that dominated NICARAGUA from the 1930s until 1979. Anastasio Garcia Somoza (1896–1956) engineered a successful...control until his assassination in 1956. Somoza family rule continued under his sons Luis...
Nicaragua
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...of the US- trained National Guard, Anastasio Somoza Garcia . The liberal rebel leader, Sandino , continued...puppet regime of the USA, but he was murdered on Somoza's orders. In 1937 Somoza toppled Sacasa and inaugurated a ruthless family...
Dictatorship in Latin America
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...through overwhelming military force. For example, the Somoza and Pinochet dictatorships in Nicaragua and Chile...1936 to 1979. The United States placed the first Somoza, Anastasio Somoza Garc í a, at the head of a national guard...
Nicaragua, Relations with
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...function apolitically, but Anastasio Somoza Garc í a, the commander of the...assassinate Sandino, his main rival, in 1934. Somoza proceeded to use the National Guard to...Although many American officials frowned upon Somoza's corrupt and authoritarian regime...
Sandino, Augusto César
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...as the National Guard under Anastasio Somoza García , as too compliant to...and reach a peace agreement, whereupon Somoza ordered his abduction and execution upon...presidential palace. A martyr at the hands of Somoza, Sandino inspired those who subsequently...
Sandino, César Augusto
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...farming scheme. Seen as a liberalizing influence, he was assassinated by Anastasio SOMOZA's National Guard. The SANDINISTA LIBERATION FRONT , which defeated the Somoza dynasty in 1979, considered itself the spiritual heir of Sandino.
Sandinistas
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...of the leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front which overthrew the Somoza regime in Nicaragua in 1979 and which ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1989...Nicaraguan National Guard (Guardia Nacional) forces commanded by Anastasio Somoza.
Chamorro, Violeta Barrios de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...assassination of her husband (presumably on the orders of Anastasio Somoza Dabayle ), she took over the editorship and became a leading opponent to the dictatorship. After Somoza's fall she joined the Sandinista junta, but left in April 1980...
Contra Aid
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...the flow of arms from the Sandinistas (who had overthrown the Somoza family dictatorship after more than forty years of rule) to...The presence of many former members of the regime of Anastasio Somoza — the president of Nicaragua from 1967 –...
Alsino y el Condor
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...entire country's film output being made in exile. Alsino y el Condor made at the time of the Sandanista overthrow of the Somoza regime in Nicaragua, is an allegory of the Nicaraguan people rising up to meet their oppressor. The film is a Mexican-Cuban...

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The deaths of Somoza.(Neustadt INTERNATIONAL PRIZE: special section)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...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...
Somoza Jr. Suspends Visit to Nicaragua
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 3/30/2000; 404 words ; Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero, the son of deposed Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, has suspended his planned visit to the...Primerisima Radio network here reported Wednesday that Somoza Jr., also known as "El Chinguin," has sent...
Here the Somoza Family Still Ruled
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/29/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...the only daughter of the founder of the Somoza family dynasty that ruled that Central...Ayrlawn was built in 1991 by Eduardo Sevilla Somoza, now Nicaragua's ambassador to the...for his parents. His mother was Lillian Somoza de Sevilla Sacasa, the daughter of Anastasio...
Somoza Falling: The Nicaraguan Dilemma.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 5/15/1989; ; 700+ words ; The United States and Nicaragua Somoza Falling: The Nicaraguan Dilemma THE MEXICAN...during the fall of General Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1978-79, director of policy...Ottoman courtier" who turned a blind eye to Somoza's corruption. That proved to be especially...
Somoza's economic czar denounces the IMF: an interview with Francisco Lainez. (Anastasio Somoza; International Monetary Fund)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Multinational Monitor; 9/1/1996; 700+ words ; ...Economic Czar" toward the end of the Somoza dynasty, Francisco Lainez founded Nicaragua...beans and bananas throughout most of these Somoza-Lainez years. The regime's failure...Sandinistas to power. Despite his conservative Somoza credentials, Lainez - now a 70-year...
Somoza Falling.
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 3/1/1989; ; 700+ words ; Somoza Falling. An >;thony Lake. Houghton Mifflin, $18...What is it like to be an assistant secretary?" Lake uses Somoza's overthrow as a case study. Somoza Failing reads like a handbook for bright graduate students intent...
The mother who wouldn't give up: her babies would be "vegetables," she was told. Now they're college sophomores. The story of a woman so full of love, her kids have truly conquered all.(Mary Somoza)
Magazine article from: Good Housekeeping; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; Mary Somoza's battles began the day her twin daughters, Alba...deprivation at birth. A hospital social worker urged Somoza and her husband, Gerardo, to institutionalize the infants. Somoza remembers exactly what the woman told her: "She...
Washington, Somoza, and the Sandinistas: State and Regime in U.S. Policy Toward Nicaragua, 1969-1981.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...S. policy toward Nicaragua during the Somoza period and for a year or so into the Sandinista...He demonstrates that, as long as the Somoza regime appeared to be in full control...which many dubbed "Somocismo without Somoza" - that would have eased Somoza out while...
Boys Soccer: Somoza feels better, Annapolis doesn't
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 10/5/2004; ; 700+ words ; Rudy Somoza just didn't feel like himself in the...That all changed in the second half. Somoza almost single- handedly broke open a competitive...the first half. I was kind of lost," Somoza said. "It was frustrating, but I just...
Daughter of Somoza Dynasty Founder Dies
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/16/2003; 296 words ; ...00-0000 Dateline: WASHINGTON Lillian Somoza de Sevilla Sacasa, the only daughter of the founder of the Somoza family dynasty in Nicaragua, died Wednesday...Sevilla Sacasa's father, Anastasio Somoza Garcia, took power in the mid-1930s...