In July 1979 a left-wing group known as the Sandinistas finally overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle of Nicaragua. US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933 – 1945) had famously said of ...

Forty years ago, seemingly out of nowhere, a series of popular eruptions shook the entrenched regime of Anastasio Somoza, who fell from power on 19 July, 1979. Today, one of the revolutionary ...

Dictator Anastasio (“Tacho”) Somoza passed the word: one nation after another was recognizing the government of his uncle, President Victor Román y Reyes, which he put in power last August ...

Nicaragua’s General Anastasio (“Ta-cho”) Somoza, assassinated in September 1956,’ after 23 years in power. ¶ Colombia’s General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, ejected by an army-civilian ...

In what is becoming something of a Mexico tradition, Phish’s Trey Anastasio joined in with Dave Matthews and DMB guitarist Tim Reynolds on Sunday to help round out the pair’s 2025 Dave ...