Ortega was defeated by Violeta Barrios de Chamorro in the 1990 presidential election, but he remained an important figure in Nicaraguan opposition politics, gradually moderating in his political position from Marxism-Leninism to democratic socialism.

In 1754 a party of French traders was arrested by Spanish Governor Barrios orders at the mouth of the Trinity at a site designated by Spaniards as El Orcoquisac.

At Governor Barrios ’ suggestion, the Presidio of San Agustin de Ahumada was erected in the summer of 1756 near El Orcoquisac, the spot of Blancpain ’ s capture.

The 1991 Barrios Altos massacre by members of the death squad Grupo Colina, made up of members of the Peruvian Armed Forces, was one of the crimes cited in the request for his extradition submitted by the Peruvian government to Japan in 2003.

It was Guatemala's main port on the Caribbean Sea before the construction of nearby Puerto Barrios.

The small town of Izabal is on the south shore of the lake ; before the construction of the ports of Livingston and Puerto Barrios in the 19th century this was Guatemala's main Caribbean Sea port and was the original seat of Izabal department ; nowadays, however, Izabal town is a remote village that gets little traffic.

Puerto Barrios was named after President Justo Rufino Barrios in 1884.

In 2003 the estimated population of Puerto Barrios was 40, 900 people.

Justo Rufino Barrios ( July 19, 1835 – April 2, 1885 ) was a President of Guatemala known for his liberal reforms and his attempts to reunite Central America.

Barrios was born in the village of San Lorenzo, in the department of San Marcos.

In July 1871, Barrios, together with other generals and dissidents, issued the " Plan for the Fatherland " proposing to overthrow Guatemala's long entrenched Conservadora ( conservative ) administration ; soon after, they succeeded in doing so, and General García Granados was declared president and Barrios commander of the armed forces.

While Barrios was back in Quetzaltenago, García Granados was overthrown by a revolt.

In 1880, Barrios was reelected President for a six-year term.

Meanwhile, Barrios was personally leading the army into El Salvador, where he was killed at Chalchuapa, El Salvador.

Developed by five US Army soldiers, 2LT Hans Mumm, SSG Shawn Mahoney, SGT Andrei Salter, SGT Scott Boehmler, and SPC Joseph Barrios, who were assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the deck of cards was first announced publicly in Iraq on 11 April 2003, in a press conference by Army Brig.

José María Reina Barrios ( December 24, 1854, San Marcos – February 8, 1898 ) was President of Guatemala from 15 March 1892 through 8 February 1898.

He was a moderate of Guatemala's Liberal Party, who worked to solidify the less controversial of the reforms of late president Justo Rufino Barrios.

Foremost among these pioneering families is the extended Lazaro Clan who, together with its cadet branches, the Saavedra, Generalao, Suson, Pardo, Barrios and Guevarra families, owned most of the cultivated lands that was to form part of the growing Christian settlement.

It seemed the complete aim of García Granados and his successor, Barrios, was to have as many liberal revolts as possible.

In his politico-economic favouritism, President Ubico ceded physical control of much of Guatemala ’ s prime agricultural land, and de facto control of Puerto Barrios, the Caribbean Sea port that grants Guatemala access to the Atlantic Ocean, in exchange for building the ( road, rail, and telegraph ) infrastructure ; resultantly, in labour-and-management relations, the Guatemalan government often was politically subservient to foreign business interests, especially those of the United Fruit Company.

Mexican President Porfirio Díaz feared Barrios ' liberal reforms and the potential of a strong Central America as a neighbor if Barrios ' plans bore fruit.

Conservatives felt outraged by Barrios, claiming he was anti-clerical, despotic and liberal.

During the liberal government of Justo Rufino Barrios, extreme poverty and forced migrations to the southern coast created a lasting state of tension in the northern communities of Huehuetenango and specifically in San Mateo Ixtatán.

Justo Rufino Barrios Auyón, then president of Guatemala, was skeptical, because Santiago Gonzales supported political refugees from Guatemala.

Barrios had ambitions of reuniting Central America and took the country to war in an unsuccessful attempt to attain this, losing his life on the battlefield in 1885 against forces in El Salvador.

* April 2 – Justo Rufino Barrios, Central American leader ( b. 1835 )

At the same time, Barrios, together with President Luis Bogran of Honduras, declared an intention to reunify the old United Provinces of Central America.

Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras agreed to reform the Central American Union, but then Salvadoran President Zaldivar decided to withdraw from the Union, and sent envoys to Mexico to join in an alliance to overthrow Barrios.

President Fernández died in office shortly after declaring war on Guatemala which, under Gen. Justo Rufino Barrios, had embarked on the reunification of the dissolved United Provinces of Central America.

Barrios paid tribute to the music and people of his native land by composing pieces modeled after folk songs from South America and Central America.

On September 26, 1972 state forces captured Bernardo Alvarado, PGT general secretary, Mario Silva Jonama, Central Committee Secretary of PGT, Carlos René Valle y Valle, Carlos Alvarado Jerez, Hugo Barrios Klee and Miguel Angel Hernández, PGT Central Committee members, Fantina Rodríguez, party member, and the domestic worker Natividad Franco Santos, in a raid in Guatemala City.

As a strong supporter of Francisco Morazán's ideal, President Bográn was a unionist and attempted to bring about, with the help of then Guatemalan President Justo Rufino Barrios, the unification of the five Central American states.

Barrios unsuccessfully attempted to get the United States of America to mediate the disputed boundary between Guatemala and Mexico.

Barrios made several friends during his multiple trips across South America.

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Barrios composed many works and brought into the mainstream the characteristics of Latin American music, as did the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

The first deal came days after the World Series, when the Marlins traded outfielder Moisés Alou to the Houston Astros for pitchers Oscar Hernandez and Manuel Barrios.

Finally, in May 1998, they dealt Bobby Bonilla, Gary Sheffield, Charles Johnson, Jim Eisenreich, and Manuel Barrios to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Mike Piazza and Todd Zeile, both of whom would be gone via trades by midseason.

* Justo Rufino Barrios Monument ( Monument of one of Guatemala's much acclaimed past President, responsible for the introduction of the railroads among other services to the country.

Others settled down in what today is Los Barrios or even further away, in the ruins of the abandoned city of Algeciras.

Guatemala's " Liberal Revolution " came in 1871 under the leadership of Justo Rufino Barrios, who worked to modernize the country, improve trade, and introduce new crops and manufacturing.

* Other-Garífuna, descended from Black Africans and indigenous peoples from St. Vincent's, live mainly in Livingston and Puerto Barrios, and other blacks and mulattos ; Asians, mostly of Chinese descent, and also a growing Koreans in Guatemala and in nearby Mixco, currently numbering about 10, 000.

Some first class bus operators ( such as Litegua between Guatemala City and Puerto Barrios, Fuente del Norte between Guatemala City and Flores, and Monja Blanca to Cobán ) run safe, modern air-conditioned buses for longer distances.

* 2001 – Christopher Barrios Jr., American murder victim ( d. 2007 )

* 1883 – Agustín Barrios, Paraguayan guitarist and composer ( d. 1944 )

After revising the constitution in 1987 and after years of resisting the United States-supported Contras the FSLN lost the election in 1990 to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, but they retained a plurality of seats in the legislature.

The members of the new junta were Daniel Ortega ( FSLN ), Moisés Hassan ( FPN ), Sergio Ramírez ( the " Twelve "), Alfonso Robelo ( MDN ) and Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the widow of La Prensas director Pedro Joaquín Chamorro.

Two opposition members, businessman Alfonso Robelo, and Violeta Barrios de Chamorro ( the widow of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro ), were also appointed.

UNO's candidate, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, replaced Daniel Ortega as president of Nicaragua.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra February 25, 1990 ' Lost as 579. 886 A total valid votes equivalent to 40. 82 %, well below that obtained by the main opposition Mrs. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro candidate of the National Opposition Union ( UNO ) who won 777. 552 to obtain valid votes equivalent to 54. 74 %.

* January 2-Christopher Barrios, Jr., American murder victim ( d. 2007 )

His administration is marked by economic development but also by numerous human rights violations ( La Cantuta massacre, Barrios Altos massacre ), and a rampant corruption network set up by Vladimiro Montesinos.