# Luis Somoza Debayle

_President of Nicaragua from 1956 to 1963_

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> Luis Anastasio Somoza Debayle was the 30th President of Nicaragua from 1957 until his resignation in 1963. He succeeded to the presidency following the death of his father, Anastasio Somoza García. The Somoza family was the most powerful family in the country at that time.

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- [Wikipedia (English): Luis Somoza Debayle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Somoza_Debayle) — [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

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