Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero

Anastasio Jesús Somoza Portocarrero (December 18, 1951, Miami) is a Nicaraguan military officer, politician and businessman, eldest son of Anastasio Somoza Debayle and Hope Portocarrero and grandson of the founders of the Somoza dynasty, Anastasio Somoza García and Salvadora Debayle de Somoza.

Biography

Popularly called "El Chigüín" He is the firstborn in a family of five children. He is a US citizen, as is his mother. He was born in Miami and lived as a child in New York and Nicaragua until he was 12 years old, where he attended La Salle Pedagogical College and completed his secondary studies at boarding schools in Newton (Massachusetts) and Kent (Connecticut).

In 1973, he graduated from Harvard Business School. He spent his military career at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, England, and attended courses at the American military schools at Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, and Fort Leavenworth.

He speaks English, Spanish and French.

During his father's mandate, in the late 1970s, he was in charge of the "Basic Infantry Training School" (EEBI) and commander of the elite troops of the National Guard (GN).

Shortly after the triumph of the revolution, he moved to France and later established his residence between the United States and Guatemala.

In 1983, he married the Salvadoran Marisa Celasco with whom he had 3 children.

In 2000 he announced his intentions to return to Nicaragua. Currently Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero continues to live in exile and has not insisted on his visit to Nicaragua.

At the beginning of 2008 he made statements to the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa that created controversy and awakened old passions, with many repudiating him and others supporting him. A reporter from the newspaper traveled to Guatemala to obtain an interview with Somoza Portocarrero, which was published in the newspaper in a series. They were his first public statements practically since the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution that overthrew his father.

None of the Somoza Portocarrero brothers reside in Nicaragua, unlike other family members who have returned.