On June 2, 1936, General Anastasio Somoza Garcia installed himself as dictator of Nicaragua, beginning the decades-long rule of the Somoza family. (Please do not confuse this dictator with his equally ruthless son, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, whose regime was embroiled in the Iran Contra scandal during the Reagan years.) Somoza attended the Pierce School of… Continue reading Nicaragua’s Day of Tears 1936