What is Anastasio Somoza García?
[[File:Somoza 1952 (centrée).jpg |thumb|right|150px|{{Center|Anastasio Somoza Garcia {{circa}} 1952}}]] '''Anastasio Somoza García''' (1 February 1896 – 29 September 1956) was the [[President]] and [[dictator]] of [[Nicaragua]] from 1937 until his death in 1956.<ref name=MinsterABT>{{cite web |url=http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/historyofcentralamerica/p/somozagarcia.htm |title=Biography of Anastasio Somoza García |author=Christopher Minster |website=About Education |publisher=About, Inc |access-date=December 18, 2016 |archive-date=December 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218062718/http://latinamericanhistory.about.com/od/historyofcentralamerica/p/somozagarcia.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He ran one of the most [[Corruption|corrupt]] governments in history.<ref name=MinsterABT/> But because his administration was [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] he was supported by the [[United States]].<ref name=MinsterABT/> García was the son of a [[wealth]]y [[Plantation|coffee planter]]. He was educated in [[Philadelphia]] where he met and married Salvadora Debayle Sacasa.<ref name=MinsterABT/> She was also from a wealthy Nicaraguan family.<ref name=MinsterABT/> He became very wealthy through [[investment]]s in [[land]], [[transport]], [[real estate]] and [[manufacturing]].<ref name=CountryStudies>{{cite web |url=http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/11.htm |title=The Somoza Era, 1936-74 |publisher=Country Studies US |access-date=December 18, 2016}}</ref> After winning the 1936 Presidential Election, he took control of the [[National Guard (Nicaragua)|National Guard]].<ref name=CountryStudies/> He placed family members in key positions of the government. He and his family controlled the [[Nationalist Liberal Party]] which controlled the [[legislature]] and [[Judiciary]].<ref name=CountryStudies/> This gave him absolute control of the country.<ref name=CountryStudies/> On September 21, 1956 he was shot in [[León, Nicaragua]] by a [[poet]].<ref name=bioTFP>{{cite web |url=http://www.thefamouspeopl