After 26 years of firm Somoza family rule, Nicaragua had someone with a different name at the head of its government last week. In much-heralded “free elections,” Luis Somoza, 40, and ...

Few have been cheekier, few bolder than the Somoza family, which for 31 years has, in one way or another, ruled Nicaragua. Last week, on the eve of an election that promised to install as ...