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Somoza
[ saw-maw-sah; English suh-moh-zuh, -moh-suh ]
noun
- A·nas·ta·sio [ah-nahs-, tah, -syaw], Anastasio Somoza García, 1896–1956, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1937–47, 1950–56 (father of Anastasio and Luis Somoza Debayle).
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It was regarded as so deeply onerous that the dictator Anastasio “Tachito” Somoza abolished it in 1970.
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He was also buddies with Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza.
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