Rigoberto López Pérez
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Rigoberto López Pérez (born c. 1929 – died 1956) was a Nicaraguan poet. He was the assassin of Anastasio Somoza García, the longtime dictator of Nicaragua.
On September 21, 1956, Rigoberto was able to infiltrate a party that was attended by president Somoza and shot him in the chest. Lopéz Pérez was instantly killed in a hail of bullets, but Somoza still died a few days later in the Panama Canal Zone hospital. Somoza's son Luis Somoza Debayle replaced his father as president and dictator.
