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heir of all her fortune and transferred all her real, personal or mixed properties to her daughter
Lillian Somoza Debayle of Seville Sacasa, because she had given her "roof and has taken care of me for more than fifteen years". This was immediately disputed by the family of her eldest son Luis Somoza Debayle.
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As first lady, she devoted herself more to social events and philanthropy; however, Salvadora exercised great power not visible, an example of this occurred in the early 40s, when she complained to her husband that her name had been omitted in the social chronicle of the newspaper La Prensa from a
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She was present at the dance at the Casa del Obrero in León when the young poet
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