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...died, as Nicaragua's Ambassador to the U.S. Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa curtly put it, "of four bullets." A man of great personal charm, Somoza was also a no-nonsense dictator with many enemies; he was well aware of the danger of assassination, and usually went about well guarded. But in mixing with the people at a political rally and dance in the town of Leon, Tacho provided the fatal opportunity for a young Nicaraguan who was in appearance an innocent dancer but at heart an assassin bent on what he conceived to be glorious tyrannicide and a martyr...
Meanwhile the object of all this regard, his paunchy body supported in a hammock, was taking his ease at his hilltop finca, Santa Julia. "Tacho" Somoza was nursing a cold and spending as much time as possible with his daughter Lillian Sevilla Sacasa and her four children. Tacho laid his head back, presented his broad, tanned cheeks to his barber...
After the Marines left, Sandino came down from the mountains to make peace with Moncada's successor, President Juan Bautista Sacasa. Sacasa, worried about Tacho's growing power, decided to cultivate Sandino as a counterforce. On the night of Feb. 21, 1934, he asked him to dinner in the presidential palace overlooking Managua. Somoza spent the evening at a party in the Guardia's barracks...
...Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa, Nicaraguan Ambassador...
...muggy Managua the optimistic proprietor of the Libreria del Sol (Sun Bookstore) dressed his counters with copies of a timely book: How to Run a Revolution. Up on the hill, fat President Lacayo-Sacasa threw back his head and laughed until his sides hurt...