"Leadership" in Nicaragua (1928 - 2017)
1928 – 1956: Anastasio (“Tacho”) Somoza García (Director, National Guard)
1950 – 1956: Anastasio (“Tacho”) Somoza García (President)
1956 – 1963: Luís Somoza Debayle (President) & Anastasio (“Tachito”) Somoza Debayle (Director, National Guard)
1963 – 1966: René Schick (President) & Gustavo Montiel (Director, National Guard)
1966 – 1967: Lorenzo Guerrero (President)
1967 – 1972: Anastasio (“Tachito”) Somoza DeBayle (President)
May 1972 – December 1974: “Liberal-Conservative Junta”
December 1974 – July 1979: Anastasio (“Tachito”) Somoza DeBayle (President)
July 1979 – January 1985: “Junta of National Reconstruction” (Sandinistas). National Guard disbanded in 1979.
January 1985 – April 1990: Daniel Ortega (President)
April 1990 – January 1997: Violeta Chamorro (President)
January 1997 – January 2002: José Arnoldo Alemán Lcayo (President)
January 2002 – January 2007: Enrique Bolaños Geyer (President)
2007 – 2012, 2012 – 2017: Daniel Ortega (President)
"Leadership" in Guatemala (1954 - 1996)
1954 – 1957: Carlos Castillo Armas (“President”)
July 1957 – October 1957: Luís Arturo González López (Acting President)
October 24, 1957 – October 26, 1957: Óscar Mendoza Azurdia (Chief of Military Junta)
October 26, 1957 – March 1958: Guillermo Flores Avenadaño (Acting President)
March 1958 – March 1963: Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (President)
March 1963 – July 1966: Enrique Peralta Azurdia (President)
July 1966 – July 1970: Julio César Méndez Montenegro (President)
July 1970 – July 1974: Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio (President)
July 1974 – July 1978: Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García (President)
July 1978 – March 1982: Fernando Romeo Lucas García (President)
March 1982 – August 1983: José Efraín Ríos Montt (President)
August 1983 – January 1986: Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores (President)
January 1986 – January 1991: Marco Vinicio Cerazo Arévalo (President)
January 1991 – June 1993: Jorge Antonio Seranbo Elías (President)
June 1, 1993 – June 5, 1993: Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero (President)
June 1993 – January 1996: Ramiro de León Carpio (President)