Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stephen Colbert this week shared a wild anecdote about how he came to be in the possession of a pair of pants that once belonged ...

Delegates of Nicaragua’s Nationalist Liberal Party convened in the steamy town of León one day last week and, as usual, picked portly, genial President Anastasio Somoza, for 22 years Nicaragua’s ...

FDR REPORTEDLY SAID IT FIRST, though the story could be apocryphal. Sizing up Anastasio Somoza, Nicaragua’s brutal (but pro-American) dictator, Roosevelt quipped, “Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but ...

The big man who was Nicaragua’s President this week lolled back happily. To friends who dropped in to pass the hot, sticky hours, he confided that his power was growing daily. The Boss had sent around ...

José R. Somoza (1913-2004) was a Nicaraguan military officer. He was a son of Nicaraguan military dictator Anastasio Somoza García, and brother of Luis Anastasio Somoza Debayle and Anastasio Somoza ...

We seldom get an eyewitness account of a TIME cover subject’s reaction to our story about him at the time he first reads it. Therefore, the following account of Anastasio Somoza’s reaction to his ...