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	Anastasio Somoza Debayle killer file
		Somoza García's younger son, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, takes over as National Guard director, launching a major reprisal campaign during which political opponents are tortured and imprisoned, the press is censored and civil liberties are suspended.
		Somoza Debayle's son, Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero, the former commander of a National Guard unit accused of widespread human rights violations, plans to return to the country from exile in Guatemala.
		The Somoza dynasty was corrupt to the core but, especially under the rule of patriarch Anastasio Somoza García, astute enough to maintain widespread community support through the introduction of reforms to the labour market, the voting system and the provision of social services.
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	Anastasio Somoza García - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anastasio Somoza Garcia was born in San Marcos on Feb. 1, 1896.
		In 1936 Somoza overthrew the elected government of Nicaragua and became a dictator, assuming the presidency in 1937.
		His sons ruled the country directly or through figurehead politicians, and although their rule was repressive and corrupt, the United States viewed them as a source of anti-communism and stability in the region.
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	Anastasio Somoza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anastasio Somoza was the name of two presidents of Nicaragua.
		Anastasio Somoza García ruled Nicaragua from 1936 to 1956.
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle was the son of Anastasio Somoza García and ruled Nicaragua from 1967 to 1979
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	Anastasio Somoza
		Anastasio Somoza was the name of two dictators of Nicaragua.
		Anastasio Somoza García[?] ruled Nicaragua from 1936 to 1956.
		He was the father of Nicaraguan presidents Luis Samoza Debayle[?] and Anastasio Somoza Debayle.
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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Anastasio_Somoza_Debayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle (December 5, 1925â“September 17, 1980) was the President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and then from 1974 to 1979.
		He was the second son of Anastasio Somoza GarcÃa, who became President of Nicaragua in 1937, effectively becoming dictator.
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle was assassinated in AsunciÃ³n, Paraguay, at the age of 54, by a commando team presided by the Argentinian Enrique Gorriaran Merlo.
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	Anastasio Somoza Debayle
		Anastacio Somoza Debayle (December 5, 1925 - September, 1980) was the President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and then from 1974 to 1979.
		He was the second son of Anastasio Somoza Garcia[?], who became President of Nicaragua in 1937.
		It was later discovered that the Somoza family had embezzled much of the international aid which had been sent to help with the aftermath of the earthquake.
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	Anastasio Somoza Debayle Summary
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle (December 5, 1925 – September 17, 1980) was officially the forty-fourth and forty-fifth President of Nicaragua from May 1, 1967 to May 1, 1972 and from December 1, 1972 to July 17, 1979.
		Anastasio had a large hand on the government during this time and saw to it that the presidency was held by politicians loyal to his family from 1963 to 1967.
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle was assassinated in Asunción, Paraguay, at the age of 54, by a commando team led by the Argentinian Enrique Gorriaran Merlo the ex-ERP (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo) member.
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	Anastasio Somoza Debayle Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925-1980) became president of Nicaragua in an election in 1967 which was marred by fraud.
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle was born in Leon, Nicaragua, on December 5, 1925, the last of three children of Salvadora Debayle and Anastasio Somoza Garcia.
		While Anastasio Somoza Debayle held command of the military, his older brother, Luis, was installed as president and nominated by the Somoza-controlled Liberal Party for the 1957 presidential elections.
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	History_of_Nicaragua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With US support Anastasio Somoza García outmaneuvered his political opponents, including Sandino who was assassinated by National Guard officers in February 1934 in violation of a safe-conduct agreement, and took over the presidency in 1936.
		The opposition was extremely skeptical of Somoza's promises, and ultimately the dictatorship continued, passing to Anastasio Somoza Debayle after Luis died of a heart attack in 1967.
		By the 1970s, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, like his brother and father, was regarded by many as a kleptocrat, as he owned 20% of the nation's prime farm land.
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	biology - Anastasio Somoza Debayle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle (December 5, 1925 - September 17, 1980) was the President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and then from 1974 to 1979.
		He was the second son of Anastasio Somoza García, who became President of Nicaragua in 1937.
		Despite this, Somoza was reelected President in the 1974 election, although the Catholic church had begun to speak against him.
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	Somoza Dynasty -- Experience Nicaragua
		The first infamous Somoza was Anastasio, a Nicaraguan general and then president from 1937 to 1947 and then from 1950 to 1956, when he was assassinated.
		Anastasio, who was born in 1896 to a moderately wealthy coffee grower, initiated the line of dictators who ruled Nicaragua with US support for 43 years.
		Luis Somoza Debayle, the politically-oriented eldest son of Anastasio Somoza García, who was educated at Louisiana State University, the University of California, and the University of Maryland, assumed the presidency under a provision in the constitution for the possible sudden death of his father.
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		Somoza increased the salaries of the common soldiers by 50% and that of officers by 20%, thus insuring gratitude and loyalty to himself.
		Somoza was ruthless (as he would say "bullets for my enemies, bucks for my friends") with his adversaries and magnanimous with his supporters.
		Somoza was rushed to Managua and from there flown, courtesy of the American Embassy, to the American Military Hospital in Panama.
	www.ans.edu.ni /Academics/history/somozatacho.html (1580 words)

	ipedia.com: Anastasio Somoza Debayle Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle was the President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and then from 1974 to 1979.
		He was the second son of Anastasio Somoza Garcia, who became President of Nicaragua in 1937.
		Despite this, Somoza was re-elected President in the 1974 election, although the Catholic church had begun to speak against him.
	www.ipedia.com /anastasio_somoza_debayle.html (395 words)

	Anastasio Somoza García -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Anastasio Somoza García (1896–September 29, 1956) (Click link for more info and facts about President of Nicaragua) President of Nicaragua.
		Sandino's assasination was followed by the murder of the peasants and of former Sandinistas by the National Guard.
		He was shot on September 21, 1956, by the poet Rigoberto López Pérez in the city of (A city in central Mexico) León, and died several days later after being sent to a (A zone consisting of a strip of land across the Isthmus of Panama that contains the Panama Canal) Panama Canal Zone hospital.
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		In 1934, Anastasio Somoza García - the head of the National Guard - initiated the assassination of César Augusto Sandino, the remaining Liberal rebel leader.
		Somoza ran for president unopposed and ruled Nicaragua for 20 years, distributing benefits primarily to his family and his supporters.
		Somoza was overthrown in 1979, led by a guerrilla movement called the Sandinistas (after César Augusto Sandino) that was founded in 1962.
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	Anastasio Somoza Debayle - U.S. Terrorism in the Americas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle was president of Nicaragua between 1967 and 1972, and again between 1974 and 1979; as head of the National Guard, he maintained effective control over the country during the interim period.
		He was the third member of the Somoza dynasty that exercised dictatorial rule in Nicaragua; one of the triad of dictators in power starting in 1936.
		President Anastasio Somoza was re-elected in the 1974 elections.
	www.terrorfileonline.org /en/index.php/Anastasio_Somoza_Debayle (399 words)

	THE SOMOZA YEARS, Nicaragua Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		Somoza supported the Allies, at least in name (intimates of Somoza during this time recall Somoza replacing his office portrait of Hitler with one of Churchill), but for most of the decade he busied himself with accumulating a personal fortune, buying up land, the national airline, even the national dairy.
		Somoza's end came unexpectedly, both for him and the country, brought about by the independent action of Rigoberto López Pérez, a 27-year-old poet, who shot the dictator dead in the streets of León in 1956.
		Luis Somoza died of a heart attack soon after and power was left concentrated in the hands of Anastasio Somoza - now both president and head of the National Guard.
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	Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the last member of the Somoza Dinasty
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle, born in León, Nicaragua in1925 and killed in Paraguay in 1980
		The younger son of dictator Anastasio Somoza García, he was educated in the United States.
		Somoza fled Nicaragua on the eve of the revolutionary victory in 1979.
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	Anastasio Somoza Garcia
		Anastasio Somoza was born on February 1, 1896, in San Marcos, Nicaragua.
		When Anastasio was a youth, he was sent to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to live with relatives while attending the Pierce School of Business Administration.
		Somoza ruled until 1956, when he was shot to death by an assassin.
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	Somoza - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Somoza was the name of an influential family dictatorship in Nicaragua.
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle was educated at the LaSalle Military Academy on Long Island and then went to college at West Point.
		President Somoza was president of Nicaragua until he was overthrown by the Sandinistas.
	www.unipedia.info /Somoza.html (162 words)

	Friendly Western Allies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Somoza may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he's our son-of-a-bitch." Corruption, torture, and wholesale murder of dissidents continued for 45 years under two generations of Somozas, for after Somoza Garcia was gunned down in the streets in 1956, his son Anastasio Somoza Debayle took control.
		The younger Somoza, made $12 million a year buying the blood of his people and selling it abroad at a 300% mark-up.
		Near the end of his reign, he aerially bombed his own capital to stay in power, but he was overthrown in 1979 by a rebel group who called themselves the Sandinistas, after the revolutionary hero his father had slain.
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	Nicaragua History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Anastasio Somoza García emerged, after ordering the assassination of Sandino, and ruled as dictator from 1936 until his assassination in 1956.
		The Somozas ruled Nicaragua with an iron fist, making Nicaragua less dependent on banana income, exiling political foes, and amassing a great family fortune.
		Somoza fled the country on July 17, 1979.
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	Angel de la Guarda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza followed in his father's footsteps using a military career as a stepladder to the presidency.
		The youngest son of the family patriarch Anastasio Somoza Garcia, and Salvadora Debayle, "Tachito" was born in Leon on December 5,1925.
		As the 1967 elections approached the two Somoza brothers, Luis and Anastasio, entered into conflict over whether Anastasio was ready to become president.
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	americas.org - Somozas Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Relatives and associates of former dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle are making inroads into Nicaraguan life and politics after years of trying to recover properties seized after the 1979 Sandinista Revolution.
		Somoza Rivas named his party the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), hearkening to a U.S.-created paramilitary group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Forces, that fought in the 1980s to reverse the revolution.
		Quiñones, a PLN leader, announced this March a Managua visit by Anastasio Somoza Portacarrero, a former colonel in the dictatorship’s notorious National Guard and head of its Basic Infantry Training School.
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	Nicaragua History
		Anastasio Somoza rules the country until his assassination in 1956.
		: Anastasio Somoza Debayle is "elected" President of Nicaragua.
		Somoza's mishandling of the crisis and international relief funds increases mistrust for the regime.
	www.seattleu.edu /asbe/studytour/nicaragua/history.html (763 words)

	Historical Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Two months later, on the eve the Sandinistas were to relinquish power, a portentous event occurred: on the hill overlooking the Intercontinental Hotel, atop "The Bunker," from where Anastasio Somoza's National Guard once orchestrated war against the city of Managua, a giant, fl silhouette with slight, slumped shoulders and a broad, angled hat now stood.
		Somoza, who'd been Stimson's interpreter during the Tipitapa negotiations, had spent the previous six years advancing through the ranks, consolidating power, and politically polarizing the Guardia.
		Somoza lashed back with two ferocious years of martial law, and again almost drove the FSLN to extinction, The assassination of Chamorro in 1978 proved disastrous for Somoza when UDEL responded by organizing unprecedented nationwide strikes.
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	Somoza family -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		The dynasty's founder, Anastasio Somoza García (1896–1956), became head of Nicaragua's army in 1933 and, after deposing the elected president in 1936, ruled the country with a firm and grasping hand until he was assassinated.
		He was succeeded by his elder son, Luis Somoza Debayle (1922–67), and later by his younger son, Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925–80), whose corrupt and brutal rule (1963–79) led to his overthrow by the Sandinistas.
		A member of the family that controlled the government of Nicaragua since the 1930s, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the son of Anastasio Somoza García, was born in León, Nicaragua.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9379093 (667 words)

	'Nicaragua'
		Somoza resumed control of the National Guard, combining the roles of president and chief director of the military.
		Luis Somoza Debayle beacme president and his brother Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle became dircetor of the National Guard.
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigned and fled to Miami.
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	Anastasio Somoza García - Encyclopedia.com
		In 1934, as director of the National Guard, Somoza had Augusto César Sandino killed.
		Somoza created both a dictatorship and a political dynasty; he was succeeded in office by his two sons, Luis and Anastasio.
		The Somoza regime was overthrown in the Sandinista revolution (1979).
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