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Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero (b. 1951) is the son of former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza Debayle and Hope Portocarrero de Somoza.

During his father's rule, he commanded a National Guard unit that was accused of human rights abuses while fighting the Sandinista guerrillas. From September 1978 to the overthrow of his father's presidency in July 1979, he ordered the attacks on guerrillas and the use of artillery and airplanes to bomb the main cities of Nicaragua that had fallen in the hands of the popular uprising led by the Sandinistas. He left Nicaragua on 17 July 1979. He went into exile in Guatemala in 1979, following the Sandinistas' victory.

He married Marisa Celasco Oberholzer, of German maternal descent, and had an only daughter:

Hope Somoza Celasco

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 '''Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero''' (b. 1951) is the son of former [[Nicaraguan]] president [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle]] and [[Hope Portocarrero|Hope Portocarrero de Somoza]].
-He attended Harvard. During his father's rule, he commanded a [[Guardia Nacional (Nicaragua)|National Guard]] unit that was accused of [[human rights]] abuses while fighting the [[Sandinista National Liberation Front|Sandinista]] guerrillas. From September 1978 to the overthrow of his father's presidency in July 1979, he ordered the attacks on guerrillas and the use of artillery and airplanes to bomb the main cities of Nicaragua that had fallen in the hands of the popular uprising led by the [[Sandinistas]]. He left Nicaragua on 17 July 1979. He went into exile to London, Paris and Guatemala in 1979, following the Sandinistas' victory.
+During his father's rule, he commanded a [[Guardia Nacional (Nicaragua)|National Guard]] unit that was accused of [[human rights]] abuses while fighting the [[Sandinista National Liberation Front|Sandinista]] guerrillas. From September 1978 to the overthrow of his father's presidency in July 1979, he ordered the attacks on guerrillas and the use of artillery and airplanes to bomb the main cities of Nicaragua that had fallen in the hands of the popular uprising led by the [[Sandinistas]]. He left Nicaragua on 17 July 1979. He went into exile  Guatemala in 1979, following the Sandinistas' victory.
 He married Marisa Celasco Oberholzer, of [[Germans|German]] maternal descent, and had an only daughter: