Nicaragua Betrayed, published in 1980, is the memoir

Memoir

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 of former Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

n president

President of Nicaragua

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 Anastasio Somoza Debayle

Anastasio Somoza Debayle

Anastasio Somoza Debayle was a Nicaraguan leader and officially the 73rd and 76th President of Nicaragua from 1 May 1967 to 1 May 1972 and from 1 December 1974 to 17 July 1979. As head of the National Guard, he was de facto ruler of the country from 1967 to 1979...

 (as told to Jack Cox), who had been toppled the previous year by the Sandinista

Sandinista National Liberation Front

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 insurgency. At the time of the book's publication, Somoza was living in Asunción

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, Paraguay

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, as a personal guest of President Alfredo Stroessner

Alfredo Stroessner

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In the book Somoza gave his account of his administration, his downfall, and what he perceived to be the American

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 betrayal

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 of his country; he was particularly critical of the Carter Administration

Jimmy Carter

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Shortly after the book's publication, Somoza and his chauffeur were assassinated in downtown Asunción by members of the Argentine

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 People's Revolutionary Army

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He is buried in Miami

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, Florida

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 at Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum.

A Spanish

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edition of the book, titled Nicaragua Traicionada, was also published.