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Assassination of Anastasio Somoza: 1980
In 1978, the US-appointed dictator of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza assassinated Joaquin Chamorro, publisher of a conservative opposition newspaper. With this, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) maintained control over Nicaragua as Somoza packed his bags for Miami. But Somoza had hardly unpacked his bags in Asuncion when Argentine guerrillas, who considered him their enemy too, found him and put an antitank rocket through the windshield of his bulletproof Mercedes Benz.
Somoza was buried in Miami, at Woodlawn Park Cemetery and Mausoleum.
In 1979, the Brazilian newspaper Gazeta Mercantil estimated that the Somoza family's fortune amounted to between $2 billion and $4 billion with its head, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, owning $1 billion.
Hey everybody, here is something entirely different from the rest of the stuff on my photo stream! Our IB history class was assigned to read over the history of Latin America and I thought the sections of US-appointed dictatorships and all our programs we had implemented in order to keep anticommunism a priority were quite interesting.
Hope you enjoy!
Assassination of Anastasio Somoza: 1980
In 1978, the US-appointed dictator of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza assassinated Joaquin Chamorro, publisher of a conservative opposition newspaper. With this, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) maintained control over Nicaragua as Somoza packed his bags for Miami. But Somoza had hardly unpacked his bags in Asuncion when Argentine guerrillas, who considered him their enemy too, found him and put an antitank rocket through the windshield of his bulletproof Mercedes Benz.
Somoza was buried in Miami, at Woodlawn Park Cemetery and Mausoleum.
In 1979, the Brazilian newspaper Gazeta Mercantil estimated that the Somoza family's fortune amounted to between $2 billion and $4 billion with its head, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, owning $1 billion.
Hey everybody, here is something entirely different from the rest of the stuff on my photo stream! Our IB history class was assigned to read over the history of Latin America and I thought the sections of US-appointed dictatorships and all our programs we had implemented in order to keep anticommunism a priority were quite interesting.
Hope you enjoy!