 Card number two, Card number two, Anastasio Somaza, Anastasio Somaza, Anastasio Somaza, former Nicaraguan president, Anastasio Somaza, Card number two. Although he fancied himself and gentlemanly Latin from Manhattan, Nicaraguan president, Anastasio Somaza, the bail was, like his brother and father before him, a brutal corrupt dictator. By the mid-1970s, the Somoza family owned one-fourth of Nicaragua's farmland, controlled most of its industries, and had deposited tens of millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts. The Somaza family had close ties to the US military industrial establishment, whose support enabled them to maintain a well-equipped National Guard, most of whose officers, Somosistas, were trained and educated in the United States. Anastasio Somaza himself was a West Point graduate. By 1978, over a hundred thousand people had died in Nicaragua's Civil War, and evidence of the atrocities committed by Somoza's henchmen had become so overwhelming that the cartel administration cut off military aid and began pressuring Somoza to step down. On July 17, 1979, as Santanista troops were surrounding Managua, Somoza was flown to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, taking with him his family and closest friends, his most trusted generals and colonels, and most of the money in Nicaragua's national treasury. A year later, Anastasio Somoza was gunned down in his Mercedes Benz on a street in Asocia, Paraguay, where he had been living in Exa. His private army, with the CIA's help, lives on.