Don Trueten :antifa:<p><strong><strong>The most beautiful assassinations of the last century No. 11: Rigoberto López Pérez vs. Anastasio Somoza García</strong></strong></p><p>
On September 21, 1956, Nicaraguan poet <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigoberto_L%C3%B3pez_P%C3%A9rez" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>Rigoberto #Pérez [de.wikipedia.org]</span></a> admission to an election convention at the Casa de Obrero in León, where <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasio_Somoza_Garc%C3%ADa" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>Anastasio Somoza García [en.wikipedia.org]</span></a> was running for re-election. He disguised himself as a waiter, which allowed him to get close to the president and seriously injure him with five shots from his <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_.38_%26_.32_Double_Action" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>Smith & Wesson .38 & .32 Double Action [en.wikipedia.org]</span></a>. The surrounding <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardia_Nacional_de_Nicaragua" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>Guardias Nacionales [de.wikipedia.org]</span></a> of Somoza's bodyguard shot López Pérez immediately afterwards. Shortly afterwards, Anastasio Somoza García was taken by military aircraft to the US military hospital Hospital Gorgas in the Panama Canal Zone, which was then still under US control, where he died eight days later. After the death of Anastasio Somoza García, his son <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_Somoza_Debayle" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>Luís Somoza Debayle [de.wikipedia.org]</span></a> succeeded him as president of Nicaragua.</p><p>
</p><blockquote>"Yo estoy sufriendo.<p>
Yo tengo el dolor de toda mi patria</p><p>y en mis venas anda un héroe buscando la libertad. </p><p>Las flores de mis días siempre estarán marchitas</p><p>si la sangre del tirano está en sus venas.</p><p>Yo estoy buscando al pez de la libertad</p><p>en la muerte del tirano.“
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”I am suffering.</p><p> I carry the pain of my entire homeland within me,</p><p>and in my veins flows a hero who strives for freedom.</p><p>The flowers of my days will always be withered if the blood of the tyrant flows in his veins.</p><p>I am searching for the fish of freedom</p><p>in the death of the tyrant."</p></blockquote>
Rigoberto López Pérez Letter from Rigoberto to his mother, San Salvador, September 4, 1956
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My dear mother:
</p><blockquote>Although you never knew it, I have always participated in all efforts to fight the disastrous regime of our country. Given that all efforts to make Nicaragua a free, unrestricted, and unblemished country again (or for the first time) have been unsuccessful, I have decided, even though my comrades-in-arms did not want to accept this, to initiate the beginning of the end of this tyranny myself. Should God will that I fail in my attempt, I do not want anyone to be held responsible, for it was entirely my decision. (...)</blockquote>
Two years after the victory of the Sandinista #Revolution, Rigoberto López Pérez, whose commitment and sacrifice for the freedom of Nicaragua marked the beginning of the end of the #tyranny of Somoza, was declared a national hero by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151009180714/http://www.midef.gob.ni/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=156&Itemid=20" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>Decree No. 536 [web.archive.org]</span></a>. Source: <a href="https://www.trueten.de/archives/13839-Die-schoensten-Attentate-des-letzten-Jahrhunderts-Nr.-11-Rigoberto-Lopez-Perez-vs.-Anastasio-Somoza-Garcia.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>trueten.de</span></a><p><a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Somoza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Somoza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Nicaragua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nicaragua</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Tyrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tyrant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/tyrannicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyrannicide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Sandinista" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sandinista</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>