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 ...

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 ...

Former Sandinista Barred from Entering U.S. A woman who helped overthrow Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza is denied entry to the United States on the grounds that she has been involved in ...

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 ...

In Costa Rica, a handful of the 40,000-odd Nicaraguan fugitives from the dictatorship of General Anastasio Somoza decided to go home to make a revolution. Led by General Alfredo Noguera Gomez ...

It used to consist chiefly of beef. But Nicaragua’s Anastasio Somoza changed that. Wounded by Costa Rica’s hospitality to his political enemies, he closed the southern frontier to the export ...