Anastasio Somoza García was the leader of Nicaragua from 1936 until his assassination in 1956. He was officially the 21st President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 1950 until his assassination on 29 September 1956, ruling for the rest of the time as an unelected military dictator. He was the patriarch of the Somoza family, which ruled Nicaragua as a family dictatorship for 42 years.
Augusto César Sandino, full name Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino, was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion between 1927 and 1933 against the United States occupation of Nicaragua. Despite being referred to as a "bandit" by the United States government, his exploits made him a hero throughout much of Latin America, where he became a symbol of resistance to American imperialism. Sandino drew units of the United States Marine Corps into an undeclared guerrilla war. The United States troops withdrew from the country in 1933 after overseeing the election and inauguration of President Juan Bautista Sacasa, who had returned from exile.
Rocha is a Portuguese language surname. It literally means “rock” or “boulder” in Portuguese; for instance, “rochas sedimentares, metamórficas e magmáticas” means “sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks”. It is also a topographic surname that is found in Portugal as “da Rocha” or simply Rocha, literally, "one who is from/of the rock". It could also be a Jewish-Portuguese Sephardic surname.
Roberto Sacasa Sarria was the President of Nicaragua from 5 August 1889 to 1 January 1891 and again from 1 March 1891 to 11 July 1893.
Juan Bautista Sacasa was the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1933 to 9 June 1936. He was the eldest son of Roberto Sacasa and Ángela Sacasa Cuadra, the former's cousin twice removed. He was a relative of Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee (2011–2014), Big Love (2009–2011), Riverdale (2017–2023), Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020) and Pretty Little Liars (2022–2024). He is chief creative officer of Archie Comics.
Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa was the Nicaraguan ambassador to the United States from 1943 until July 19, 1979, when President Anastasio Somoza Debayle was forced into exile following the Nicaraguan Revolution. As a result of his record-breaking service as ambassador in Washington, D.C., he was appointed Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, a position he held from January 1958 to July 1979.
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa was the President of Nicaragua from 27 May to 15 August 1947.
Hope Portocarrero Debayle, also known as Madame Somoza and Hope Somoza Baldocchi later in life, was an American socialite and, beginning in 1967, the First Lady of Nicaragua as the wife of president Anastasio Somoza Debayle. In 1968, she was named to the International Best Dressed List. She was the mother of Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero and four other children.
Bolaños is a Hispanic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Montenegro is a surname of Galician origin, later spreading to other parts of Spain and Portugal.
Blandón is a Spanish surname.
Brenes is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
LillianSomoza de Sevilla Sacasa, born Lillian Ada de la Cruz Somoza Debayle was a member of the Somoza family in Nicaragua. She was the daughter of dictatorial president Anastasio Somoza García and Salvadora Debayle de Somoza, the wife of Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa, and the sister of the dictatorial presidents Luis Somoza Debayle and Anastasio Somoza Debayle.
Aguirre is a surname of Basque origin. It shows different variants and composite surnames, meaning 'prominent' or 'exposed prominence/place'. Lope de Aguirre was one of the first Europeans to explore the Americas. Based on "the U.S. Census Bureau's 1990 and 2000 censuses," HowManyofMe.com estimates in mid-2013 that 68,990 people bear the surname Aguirre in the United States, making the name statistically the country's 508th most common surname.
Lacayo is a surname, from the Spanish language it originally described a footman.
Buitrago is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
“Marcha Roberto Sacasa” was the national anthem of Nicaragua adopted in 1889 after the assumption of presidency by Roberto Sacasa. It was composed by Alejandro Cousin and it had no words. It was abolished after the liberal revolution of 1893, when it was replaced by the new national anthem Hermosa Soberana.
Ana Salvadora Debayle Sacasa de Somoza García was the First Lady of Nicaragua during the presidency of her husband, the dictator Anastasio Somoza Garcia.
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