Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero

Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero ( born December 18, 1951 in Miami ) was the last chief of the National Guard of Nicaragua the reign of the Somoza family until 1979. He was the last member of the Somoza family, who held the presidency since 1934.

Life

Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero is the eldest son of Anastasio Somoza Debayle and Hope Portocarrero. Up to the age of twelve he spent his youth in New York City, as his father in the La Salle Academy was also trained and then went to Nicaragua. He then studied at Harvard University and was military training in the UK. In Nicaragua, he received the nickname " El Chinguin ".

Under the reign of his father, he took over the office of the Chief of the National Guard. On his initiative towards the publisher Pedro Chamorro was assassinated. In the increasingly violent civil war against the Sandinistas, he used on the father's artillery and air force command to destroy cities which had fallen into the hands of the Sandinistas. These attacks cost about 30,000 to 50,000 lives.

With the fall of his father, he had to emigrate abroad. He stayed in the U.S. and Guatemala as exile stations and is since the assassination of his father, the head of the Samoza - family trying to date to be able to take their expropriated properties repossessed.

In 2000, there were efforts on the part of some political forces to return him to the land and to have run for president. Somoza rejected this suggestion from but because he feared that his appearance would put the violence sprout again, as some groups, especially the Sandinistas had threatened with armed protest.

He was married to Marisa Celasco Oberholzer and has two sons and a daughter. The marriage has been divorced. His daughter Hope Somoza Celasco attended the American School in Guatemala City.