Sacasa is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza García was officially the 21st President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 1950 to 29 September 1956,Anastasio Somoza started the Somoza family, a family dictatorship that maintained absolute control over Nicaragua for 42 years.
Rocha is a Portuguese language surname. Its origin can be traced back from French as one of the earliest depicts of the name was a 1220 register of a French citizen living in Portugal whose surname was Rochela, diminutive of the french name Roche. It can also be a Jewish-Portuguese Sephardic surname. It literally means “rock” or “boulder” in Portuguese; for instance, “rochas sedimentares, metamórficas e magmáticas” means “sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks”. It is also a topographic surname that is found in Portugal as “da Rocha” or simply Rocha, literally, "one who is from/of the rock".
Roberto Sacasa Sarria was the President of Nicaragua from 5 August 1889 to 1 January 1891 and again from 1 March 1891 to 11 July 1893.
Juan Bautista Sacasa was the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1933 to 9 June 1936. He was the eldest son of Roberto Sacasa and Ángela Sacasa Cuadra, the former's cousin twice removed. He was a relative of Benjamín Sacasa.
Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa was the Nicaraguan ambassador to the United States from 1943 until July 19, 1979, when President Anastasio Somoza Debayle was forced into exile following the Nicaraguan Revolution. As a result of his record-breaking service as ambassador in Washington, D.C., he was appointed Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, a position he held from January 1958 to July 1979.
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa was the President of Nicaragua from 27 May to 15 August 1947.
Hope Portocarrero, also known as Madame Somoza was the wife of dictator and president of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle and, beginning in 1967, First Lady of Nicaragua for a time. In 1968 she was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. She was the mother of Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero and four other children.
Navarro is a Spanish, Italian, and French surname. Navarro is a habitational surname denoting someone from Navarre after the Kingdom of Pamplona took on the new naming in the high Middle Ages. The person who recorded this invented its ethnic origin. Navarro means a person from Navarra, an established kingdom in medieval Spain. Vascuence is the proper Spanish name of the Basque language. Ultimately the name is derived from the Basque word naba.
Blanco is a surname of Spanish origin, meaning "white". Notable people with the surname include:
Bolaños is a Hispanic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Montenegro is a surname of Galician origin, later spreading to other parts of Spain and Portugal.
Escoto is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Blandón is a Spanish surname.
Brenes is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Aguirre is a surname of Basque origin. It shows different variants and composite surnames, meaning 'prominent' or 'exposed prominence/place'. Lope de Aguirre was one of the first Europeans to explore the Americas. Based on "the U.S. Census Bureau's 1990 and 2000 censuses," HowManyofMe.com estimates in mid-2013 that 68,990 people bear the surname Aguirre in the United States, making the name statistically the country's 508th most common surname.
Lacayo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Buitrago is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Batres is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Tonin or Toñín is a masculine given name and a surname. Toñín is a Spanish masculine given name and nickname that is a diminutive form of Antonio in use in Spain, parts of the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Western Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, and the Falkland Islands. Notable people with this name include the following:
