José R. Somoza
José R. Somoza (born May 3, 1914 in Masatepe , Nicaragua , † December 24, 2004 in Miami , Florida ) was a Nicaraguan general of the National Guard during the reign of the Somoza clan until 1979. He was a member of the Somoza clan, which since 1934 held the presidency.
Life
José R. Somoza is the illegitimate son of Anastasio Somoza García and Claudia Rodríguez. Like his younger, legitimate half-brothers, he received a military upbringing and was given leading positions in the National Guard by his father.
After his father's death, he continued to be patronized by his brothers Luís Somoza Debayle and Anastasio Somoza Debayle , who held the presidency intermittently and continued to place the commander in chief over the National Guard. Under Anastasio's rule, he was promoted to general inspector of the National Guard and director.
In 1974 he was the victim of a Sandinista hostage situation, which he survived unscathed. In the civil war that followed, the National Guard fought against the Sandinista rebels until the Somoza regime was overthrown in 1979. He fled to Miami with his half-brother and his family.
In 1994 he suffered a serious heart attack from which he was never to recover and of the consequences of which he died on December 24, 2004 in the Baptist Hospital in Miami.
His coffin is laid out in the family's mausoleum in Miami alongside those of his brothers Luís and Anastasio, that of his father and that of Hope Portocarrero in one of the oldest cemeteries in Florida, the Caballero Rivero Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum .
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| SURNAME | Somoza, José R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nicaraguan General and Inspector General of the National Guard |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Masatepe, Nicaragua |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 2004 |
| Place of death | Miami |