Somoza
anastasio
[ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (show ipa), (anastasio somoza garcía) 1896–1956, nicaraguan political leader: president 1937–47, 1950–56 (father of anastasio and luis somoza debayle).
contemporary examples
it was regarded as so deeply onerous that the dictator anastasio “tachito” somoza abolished it in 1970.
china’s nicaragua c-n-l could spark a new central america revolution nina lakhani november 29, 2014
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