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and was the second most powerful man in the country during his older brother's rule. Although Luis declined to run for reelection in 1963, he and
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from 1950 to 1953, and 1954 to 1956, and the president of the Senate from 1965 to 1966.
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472:12 February
381:Sandinistas
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