Forty years ago, seemingly out of nowhere, a series of popular eruptions shook the entrenched regime of Anastasio Somoza, who fell from power on July 19, 1979. Today, one of the revolutionary ...

When Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza forcibly knocked over the Government of his too-independent successor, President Leonardo Argüello (TIME, June 9), the U.S., along with the other nations ...

Anastasio Somoza was the last member of a family dynasty that ruled the Central American country of Nicaragua "with an iron hand" for more than 40 years, The Associated Press reported when he was ...

El 17 de julio de 1979, el dictador Anastasio Somoza Debayle abandonó definitivamente Nicaragua. Esa fecha —conocida como el Día de la Alegría— parecía cerrar definitivamente una etapa ...

Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega led a hugely popular left-wing revolution in 1979 against the U.S.-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza. But today, university student protesters chant: Ortega and ...

In 1936, Anastasio Somoza was elected president of Nicaragua. He ran under the the Liberal Nationalist Party, or PLN. He was elected with broad support among liberals in Nicaragua, although, soon ...

MIAMI — A nephew of the late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison for his part in a $5 million cash-skimming operation from the family’s Los ...