1957 Nicaraguan general election explained

General elections were held in Nicaragua on 3 February 1957 to elect a president and National Congress.

References

• Book: Bulmer-Thomas, Victor . Nicaragua since 1930 . Bethell, Leslie . Central America since Independence . 1991 . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press . 978-0521423731 . 254 ff.
• Book: Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook . Nohlen, Dieter . 1 . Oxford . Oxford University Press . 2005 . 978-0199283576.

Further reading

• Gambone, Michael D. Capturing the revolution: the United States, Central America, and Nicaragua, 1961-1972. Westport: Praeger. 2001.
• González, Victoria . “Somocista women, right-wing politics, and feminism in Nicaragua, 1936-1979.” Radical women in Latin America: left and right. 2001. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University. Revised edition of González 1997.
• Martz, John D. Central America, the crisis and the challenge. Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press. 1959.
• Metoyer, Cynthia Chavez. Women and the state in post-Sandinista Nicaragua. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 2000.
• Millett, Richard. Guardians of the dynasty: a history of the U.S. created Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua and the Somoza Family. Maryknoll: Orbis Books. 1977.
• Parker, Franklin D. The Central American republics. Westport: Greenwood Press. Reprint of 1964 original. 1981.
• Political handbook of the world 1958. New York, 1959.
• Tenorio, Gloria Esther and Mercedes Ríos Rocha. La participación política de las mujeres en el proceso electoral 1996. Managua: Instituto de Investigaciones Mujer y Cambio.