Word: anastasio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bautista Sacasa last week ruled only the top of the dead volcano on which stands the Presidential Palace at Managua. In complete control of the rest of Nicaragua was the National Guard, created and trained by U. S. Marines during the seven-year U. S. occupation, and its General Anastasio Somoza, who had deployed his men around the base of the volcano. No murmur of protest at these activities rose from the Nicaraguan populace, who chose to regard the affair strictly as a quarrel between Somoza and Sacasa for the right to name Nicaragua's next President...
...power after their terms have expired. When the U. S. Marines left Nicaragua in 1933, they left behind them an idea of a cure for continuismo: a constitution that forbade a President to be succeeded by a kinsman; and a potent, nonParty, Marine-trained National Guard headed by General Anastasio Somoza, whose wife is President Juan Bautista Sacasa's niece...