National Guard (Nicaragua)
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The Nicaraguan National Guard was the military created in 1925 during the occupation of Nicaragua by the United States as a militia and gendarmerie. It became notorious for human rights abuses and cor
National Guard members in 1931
A M4 Sherman tank of the Nicaraguan National Guard during clashes with Sandinista rebels in Estelí, 1979.
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
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Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle was a Nicaraguan politician, military officer, hydraulic engineer, and dictator who served as the 53rd President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and again from 1974 u
National Guard (Nicaragua)
…by a young dissident poet, Rigoberto López Pérez, and was succeeded in the presidency by his elder son, Luis Somoza Debayle, while his youngest son Anastasio Somoza Debayle, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point became the Chief Director of the National Guard. Brutal repression of the internal…
Somoza Debayle in the United States Military Academy yearbook, 1946
Somoza family mausoleum
Somoza with U.S. President Richard Nixon, 2 June 1971.