SOMOZA DEBAYLE, ANASTASIO

änästäsˈyō sōmōˈsä thābīˈlā, 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 resigned (1972), nominally yielding power until the 1974 elections; however, as commander of the corrupt and brutal national guard, he effectively retained power. As president, he dealt ruthlessly with opposition. By the late 1970s, his regime was denounced by human-rights organizations and by the U.S. government, and support for violent insurrection spread. Somoza fled Nicaragua on the eve of the revolutionary victory in 1979. He was assassinated in Paraguay.

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books on: Somoza Debayle Anastasio  - 187 results

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Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua, 1953-1961
Book by Michael D. Gambone; Greenwood, 1997
Subjects: Cold War, Eisenhower, Dwight D--(Dwight David)--1890-1969, Nicaragua--Foreign Relations--United States, Somoza, Anastasio--1896-1956, United States--Foreign Relations--1953-1961, United States--Foreign Relations--Nicaragua
...Niebuhr On 17 July 1979, Anastasio Somoza Debayle departed Nicaragua for the...Knut Walter, The Regime of Anastasio Somoza Garcia and State Formation...specifically addressed the regime of Anastasio Somoza Garcia. Similarly, Managuas...
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Death of Somoza
Book by Claribel Alegría, Darwin Flakoll; Curbstone Press, 1996
Subjects: Asunciaon (Paraguay)--History, Somoza, Anastasio--1925-1980--Assassination
...bringing to justice of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. During the following months...definitive account of how Anastasio Somoza Debayle was brought to justice...CHAPTER 1 President Anastasio Somoza Debayle presented his resignation...
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U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua
Book by Mauricio Solaún; University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Subjects: Intervention (International Law), Nicaragua--Foreign Relations--United States, Nicaragua--History--Revolution, 1979, Nicaragua--Politics And Government--1937-1979, Solaaun, Mauricio, United States--Foreign Relations--Nicaragua
...Golden Years 54 4 The Anastasio Somoza Debayle Period 79 5 Neutrality...several dictatorships. Anastasio Somoza Debayle was singled out in this...special men.9 9 Gen- eral Anastasio Somoza Debayles personality, political...
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Rascally Signs in Sacred Places: The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua
Book by David E. Whisnant; University of North Carolina Press, 1995
Subjects: Nicaragua--Civilization, Nicaragua--Cultural Policy, Politics And Culture--Nicaragua--History
...Odd Accent in Spanish: Culture and the Somoza Dictatorship , 107...Flowers: Culture and Resistance to the Somoza Dictatorship , 151...culture. The same must be said of the Somoza regimes efforts to prohibit certain forms...
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Nicaragua Divided: La Prensa and the Chamorro Legacy
Book by Patricia Taylor Edmisten; University of West Florida Press, 1990
Subjects: Chamorro Family, Nicaragua--Politics And Government--1979-1990, Prensa (Managua, Nicaragua)
...completing his term. Anastasio Somoza Debayle Tachito , 1925-80...Kid , 1951-: son of Anastasio Somoza Debayle; born in Tampa, Florida...dynasty. In a letter to Anastasio Somoza Debayle on January 18, 1975, he...
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journal articles on: Somoza Debayle Anastasio  - 7 results

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Competing Claims: The Struggle for Title in Nicaragua
Journal article by Michael Roche; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Democracy--Laws, regulations and rules, Foreign investments--Political aspects, Land titles--Laws, regulations and rules, Property law--Political aspects
...assassination in 1956. (18) Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza Garcias second son...was quickly pocketed by Anastasio Somoza Debayle. (27) U.S. President Jimmy...September 11, 1978, President Anastasio Somoza Debayle issued Executive Decree...
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U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua
Journal article by Charles L. Stansifer; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua (Book)--Book reviews
...accounts of the 1979 collapse of the Anastasio Somoza Debayle regime in Nicaragua, this book...substantial opposition in Nicaragua to Somozas declared intention to remain in...their release. Outside the narrow Somoza circle it was clear that Somoza...
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Nicaragua and the United States
Journal article by Shirley Christian; World Affairs, Vol. 149, 1987
Subjects: Arbitration, International, International Relations, Peace
...the goals of the Alliance era. But in 1967, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Luis younger brother, who had taken over the...justify demanding that the Somozas abandon power. Anastasio Somoza Debayle looked like the peoples choice. By the early...
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Forged Testimonies: Fabricating the Nation in Sergio Ramirez's Sombras Nada Mas
Journal article by Henigha Stephen; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007
Subjects: National identity--Portrayals, Nicaraguan history--Portrayals, Nicaraguan literature--Criticism and interpretation, Ramirez, Sergio--Criticism and interpretation, Sombras nada mas (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...the Sandinista overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the last Somoza dictator...Hueck, who was expelled from Anastasio Somozas inner circle after an almost...an attempt to assassinate Anastasio Somoza Garcia, the first Somoza dictator...
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The Catholic Church in the Nicaraguan Revolution: A Gramscian Analysis
Journal article by Dana Sawchuk; Sociology of Religion, Vol. 58, 1997
Subjects: Religion And Sociology
...finally succeeded in ousting the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The corrupt and repressive Somoza family had ruled Nicaragua with the support...Archbishop of Managua. As the story goes, when Somoza gave the Archbishop a Mercedes-Benz as a...
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Arms from the U.S.S.R. - or from Nobody; Sandinistas' No-Win Choice
Magazine article by George Black, Robert Matthews; The Nation, Vol. 241, August 31, 1985
Subjects: Military assistance, Soviet--Nicaragua, Nicaragua--Military policy, Nicaraguan foreign relations--United States, Soviet military assistance--Nicaragua, United States, United States foreign relations--Nicaragua
...Robert Matthews When Anastasio Somoza Debayle flew out of Managua at dawn on...Carter Administration negotiators, Somozas nationalist Liberal Party and...Sandinista domination of the post-somoza order. But the deal fell apart...
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Nicaragua
Magazine article by Louisa Reynolds; New Internationalist, April 2007
Subjects: Nicaragua--Economic aspects, Nicaragua--History, Nicaragua--Political aspects, Nicaraguan foreign relations, United States foreign relations
...the poet Rigoberto Lopez Perez in 1956, but his son Anastasio Somoza Debayle soon assumed dictatorial control. Despite widespread...international aid that poured in was unashamedly pocketed by Somoza--leaving the capital, Managua, in ruins--that serious...
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Electoral Meddling: Get the N.E.D. out of Nicaragua
Magazine article by John Spicer Nichols; The Nation, Vol. 250, February 26, 1990
Subjects: Elections--Nicaragua, National Endowment for Democracy--Political activity, National Opposition Union (Nicaragua)--Finance, Nicaragua--Political aspects, Nicaraguan foreign relations--United States, Ortega Saavedra, Daniel--Political activity, United States, United States foreign relations--Nicaragua, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations--Political activity
...committee found indications of continued foreign financing of U.S. campaigns, including evidence suggesting that Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who had inherited the Nicaraguan presidency on the death of his older brother Luis, had continued the family...
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Charity Begins in Swindon: What Happens to All the Money Donated to Nicaragua, That Favourite Middle-Class Cause?
Magazine article by Gideon Burrows; New Statesman, Vol. 132, March 31, 2003
Subjects: Charitable contributions--Political aspects, Nicaragua--Political aspects
...revolution, which finally toppled the brutal dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in 1979, was the trendiest of all middleclass causes...FSLN-dominated ruling committee took over, when Anastasia Somoza Debayle fled to Miami in 1979, the Sandinista leadership seized...
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Mirror of Our Midlife Crisis
Magazine article by Peter Davis; The Nation, Vol. 238, January 28, 1984
Subjects: Americans abroad--Nicaragua, Americans abroad--Personal narratives, Americans in Nicaragua--Personal narratives, Christianity and politics--Nicaragua, Military policy--Public opinion, Miskitos--Civil rights, Nicaragua--Political aspects, Nicaraguan foreign relations--United States, Sandinista National Liberation Front--Public opinion, United States, United States foreign relations--Nicaragua
...an exiled Cuban doctor and by Anastasio Somoza Debayle, dictator of Nicaragua and third...of the United States. Although Somoza and the Cuban doctor, whose name...was around $12 million a year. Somoza, bleeding his own people, had...
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Lillian De Sevilla Sacasa, 82, Washington Socialite
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 21, 2003
...Nicaragua, the eldest daughter of Anastasio Somoza Garcia and Salvadora Debayle Sacasa. She was born Lillian Ada de la Cruz Somoza Debayle and was the daughter, sister...nine children, Guillermo Anastasio of Miami, Lillian Salvadora...
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Family Views Show House
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 6, 2006
...Nicaraguan dictators, Anastasio Somoza Garcia and Anastasio Somoza Debayle. After the Sandinistas seized control of their government...have loved the master bedroom," said Lorena Sevilla-Somoza, marveling over its serene aqua interior by designer...
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Romania Foils Plot
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 19, 2003
...She was the only daughter of Anastasio Somoza Garcia, who established the regime that was inherited by his son, Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Mrs. Sevilla Sacasas portrait appeared on the Nicaraguan currency, the cordoba, between 1940 and 1960. The...
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Nicaraguan Voters Stand at a Crossroads: First Transition of Democratic Era Could Seat Ortega
Newspaper article by Tom Carter; The Washington Times, October 15, 1996
Subjects: Aleman, Arnoldo, Ortega Saavedra, Daniel
...the Somocista Youth Movement, named for dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Mr. Aleman, 50, is supported by Nicaraguan exiles...Mr. Aleman wins he will name Mr. Somozas son, Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero, as army chief. In addition to...
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Two-Headed Caudillo
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 24, 2006
Subjects: Political parties
...said. He accused Mr. Ortega of "betraying the ideals of the revolution" of 1979 that ended the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Salon to embassy Latvia next week will dedicate a new embassy in the historic Sheridan Circle home of one of...
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encyclopedia articles on: Somoza Debayle Anastasio  - 4 results

 
 
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Somoza Debayle, Anastasio
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SOMOZA DEBAYLE, ANASTASIO anastas yo somo sa thabi la, 1925...1974 79). The younger son of dictator Anastasio Somoza , he was educated in the United States...support for violent insurrection spread. Somoza fled Nicaragua on the eve of the revolutionary...
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Somoza Debayle, Luis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SOMOZA DEBAYLE, LUIS looes somo sa...oldest son of the dictator Anastasio Somoza , he was educated...familys business interests. Somoza Debayle was an ardent anti-Communist...convenient to put a non-Somoza in the presidency, he pushed...
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Sandinistas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...leader, was formed in 1962 to oppose the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle . In 1979 the Sandinistas launched an offensive from Costa Rica and Honduras that toppled Somoza. They established a junta that nationalized such...
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Nicaragua
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Somoza Debayle became president. Another son, Anastasio Somoza Debayle , headed the armed forces. The Somoza family...Lorenzo Guerrero, the vice president, succeeded. Anastasio Somoza Debayle was elected president in 1967. Although Somoza...


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