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Actually, Rigoberto Lopez Perez fired 5 shots at Somoza with a 38 revolver. Hit him 4 times, 3 bullets remained lodged, NONE OF THE WOUNDS WERE FATAL. The two more serious were: one that perforated one lung, and the other lodging by the spine which caused pain.

As the Somoza family did not trust the best doctors in Nicaragua, 'cause they were not "Somocistas", they flew "Tacho" to Panama to be intervened by President Eisenhower's personal doctors.

You do not put a person totally under anesthesia for long with a perforated lung. You use only local anesthesia to extract the bullets one at the time. As rumors flew that the bullets were poisoned, the family pushed for total anesthesia and all the bullets be extracted at once. The operation, lasting 6 hours, was a success, but Somoza that was perfectly awake and joking, before the operation, never woke up from the anesthesia dying about a week later.

Rigoberto Lopez Perez started it, but it was Somoza's family stupidity and mistrust that finished him up.

I was 2 years old, living 4 blocks from were it happened. My father, a medical technologist, was picked up by a military jeep to go and provide Somoza with a blood transfusion before moving him.

Rigoberto Lopez Perez was knocked down by a rifle butt first, and on the floor, shot 52 times by Somoza's guards.

is correct Mark,and this is not "Tachito" but Tacho Viejo. the father.

created the military academy in Nicaragua, in the 1930's, and left him as director. Using this newly created "guardia nacional" as his personal army, he ordered Sandino assesinated, and then overthrew the then president Juan Bautista Sacasa, his uncle in law, becoming a dictator, and initiating a 40 years long Somoza dinasty. This was an early attempt at getting rid of the dictatorship.

He was Killed/Assassinated. Picture is of Nicaragua’s famous butcher, the “he may be a son-so-a-bitch but he is our (USA) son-of-a- bitch Somoza?

he does look like gomer pyle

jajaja !!!

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