Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.

Anastasio Somoza Debayle

President of Nicaragua (1967–72, 1974–79)

Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle was a Nicaraguan politician who served as the 53rd President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and again from 1974 to 1979. As head of the National Guard, he was de facto ruler of the country between 1967 and 1979, even during the period when he…