# Francisco Urcuyo

_Nicaraguan vice president (1967–72) and president (1979)_

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> Francisco Urcuyo Maliaños was a Nicaraguan politician, who served as Vice President of Anastasio Somoza Debayle from 1967 to 1972, and President of Nicaragua, very briefly after Somoza fled the country in 1979.

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## Sources

- [Wikipedia (English): Francisco Urcuyo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Urcuyo) — [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

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