Rigoberto López Pérez

Nicaraguan poet

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In Nicaragua: The Somoza years
…term, a Liberal poet named Rigoberto López Pérez shot the president, who died eight days later. Congress at once gave Luis Somoza Debayle his father’s position, and in February 1957 he was dubiously elected to his own term (1957–63). Somoza Debayle ruled more gently than his father had. He accepted…
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