In 1886, Jules Marcou said Vespucci renamed himself from Alberigo Vespucci ( Albericus Vespucius ) to Amerigo Vespucci after meeting the native inhabitants of the eponymous Amerrique mountain ranges of Nicaragua that connect North America and South America, an important geographic feature of New World maps and charts.

In early 2004, Nicaragua secured some $ 4. 5 billion in foreign debt reduction under the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative.

His military career included service in World War I, Haiti and Nicaragua during the Banana Wars of the 1920s, in the seizure of Guadalcanal, and later as Commanding General of the 1st Marine Division during World War II.

Throughout the 1980s, the Heritage Foundation's foreign policy expert on the Third World, Michael Johns, the foundation's principal Reagan Doctrine advocate, visited with resistance movements in Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua, and other Soviet-supported nations and urged the Reagan administration to initiate or expand military and political support to them.

During his career, he fought guerrillas in Haiti and Nicaragua, and participated in some of the bloodiest battles of World War II and the Korean War.

Bullet ants, genus Paraponera found from Nicaragua southward to the Amazon Basin and their close relatives of the genus Dinoponera are New World ponerines known for their painful stings.

In 2007, The Black Eyed Peas embarked on the Black Blue & You World Tour, visiting more than 20 countries, including Macau, Sweden, Poland, Romania, Hungary, South Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Australia, Nigeria, Mexico, Thailand, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Argentina, Philippines, El Salvador and Brazil.

Category: World Heritage Sites in Nicaragua

Revolutionary leaders in Iran gave and sought support from non-Muslim causes in the Third World – e. g. the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, IRA in Ireland and anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa – even to the point of favoring non-Muslim revolutionaries over Islamic causes such as the neighboring Afghan Mujahideen.

Carlson had been a soldier in the Punitive Expedition to capture Pancho Villa in Mexico and World War I, became a Marine officer during the American occupation of Nicaragua, and served as an Intelligence Officer of the 4th Marines in China.

Simplemente Unico: Lo que la Comunidad Sorda de Nicaragua le Puede Enseñar al Mundo Unique: What the Nicaraguan Deaf Community Can Teach the World.

Bolaños attempted to work closely with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in attempts to reduce Nicaragua ’ s foreign debt by means of cooperation with Structural Adjustment Programs.

The Sixth World Congress of the Comintern, meeting in Moscow in the summer of 1928, issued a statement " expressing solidarity with the workers and peasants of Nicaragua and the heroic army of national emancipation of General Sandino ".

Julian Constable Smith ( September 11, 1885 – November 5, 1975 ) was a United States Marine Corps general who served for 37 years, including service in Nicaragua ( Navy Cross ) and during World War II's Battle of Tarawa ( Distinguished Service Medal ).

Additionally, between the United States Civil War and World War I, the American military frequently intervened in the affairs of Latin American countries, including Colombia / Panama, Haiti, Cuba, and Nicaragua.

According to information from Seymour M. Hersh, author of The Dark Side of Camelot during early preparations to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, President Dwight D. Eisenhower personally asked then-Governor of Alabama John Malcolm Patterson ( who served as a lieutenant in Eisenhower's staff during the World War II ) to use the aircraft of Air National Guard of Alabama ( Patterson, as Governor, was commander-in-chief of the guard ) by Cuban émigrés to attack and pilots to train them in deep secret in Nicaragua.

Nevertheless, by 1950, the IBAF was able to expand the format of the Baseball World Cup that was contested in Managua, Nicaragua to 12 participating countries.

* Volcano World: Concepción, Nicaragua

Casa Alianza Nicaragua recently participated in the 2010 Street Child World Cup in Durban, South Africa, placing in a tie for 3rd with the United Kingdom.

In addition to his actions in Nicaragua he saw action in World War I, World War II, the Haitian and Nicaraguan campaigns and the Korean War.

* In Nicaragua a One World Action partner, Movimiento Maria Elena Cuadra, provides training to women factory workers in the Export Processing Zones about labour rights and health & safety.

In 2007, MAF provided aid following Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh and Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua, and worked with the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to halt an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

These organisations were later joined by the Women's Institute, Britain's largest women's organisation, and other organisations including Banana Link, Methodist Relief and Development Fund, Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, People & Planet, SCIAF, Shared Interest Foundation, Soroptimist International, Tearfund and the United Reformed Church.

A German Government report on fuel prices dated 2010 / 11 stated that the Imperial gallon is used as a unit of measure for fuel in Guyana, United Arab Emirates and Antigua and Barbuda and the US gallon in Liberia, Belize, Colombia, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar ( Burma ), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico and the United States.

# Decides that the United States of America, by certain attacks on Nicaraguan territory in 1983-1984, namely attacks on Puerto Sandino on 13 September and 14 October 1983, an attack on Corinto on 10 October 1983 ; an attack on Potosi Naval Base on 4 / 5 January 1984, an attack on San Juan del Sur on 7 March 1984 ; attacks on patrol boats at Puerto Sandino on 28 and 30 March 1984 ; and an attack on San Juan del Norte on 9 April 1984 ; and further by those acts of intervention referred to in subparagraph ( 3 ) hereof which involve the use of force, has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligation under customary international law not to use force against another State ;

* Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute ( El Salvador / Honduras: Nicaragua intervening ), International Court of Justice case registry

* Application for Revision of the Judgment of 11 September 1992 in the Case concerning the Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute ( El Salvador / Honduras: Nicaragua intervening ) ( El Salvador v. Honduras ), International Court of Justice case registry

It has contributed to United Nations peacekeeping operations worldwide, with Argentine soldiers / engineers and police / Gendarmerie serving in El Salvador – Honduras – Nicaragua ( where Navy patrol boats painted white were deployed ), Guatemala, Ecuador – Peru, Western Sahara, Angola, Kuwait, Cyprus, Croatia, Kosovo, Bosnia and East Timor.

In Central America, it continues through southern Guatemala, southwestern Honduras, western Nicaragua, and western / southwestern Costa Rica, and southern Panama.

Late on 16 April, the CIA / Brigade 2506 invasion fleet converged on ' Rendezvous Point Zulu ', about south of Cuba, having sailed from Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua where they had been loaded with troops and other materiel, after loading arms and supplies at New Orleans.

Mosquito Coast, Honduras / Nicaragua

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Benjamin Ernest " Ben " Linder ( July 7, 1959 – April 28, 1987 ), was an American engineer who was working on a small hydroelectric dam in rural northern Nicaragua when he was killed by the Contras, an affiliation of rebel groups funded by the U. S. government / CIA.

During the Sandinista / Indian conflict in Nicaragua of the mid-1980s, Russell Means sided with Miskito Indians opposing the Sandinista government.

During the 1980s, SANE / FREEZE expanded its work to oppose U. S. military intervention in El Salvador and to end U. S. military aid to the Contras in Nicaragua.

* APC was founded by IGC ( USA ), GreenNet ( UK ), NordNet ( Sweden ), Web Networks ( Canada ), Alternex / IBASE ( Brazil ), Nicarao / CRIES ( Nicaragua ), and Pegasus Networks ( Australia ).

The members ( listed from earliest joining and alphabetically if they joined on the same day ) at this time were Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, the British Empire, Canada, Chile, the Republic of China, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Italy, Liberia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia / Iran, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Siam, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Union of South Africa, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Luxembourg, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Ireland, Ethiopia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Turkey, Iraq, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Afghanistan and Ecuador.

** The standard form in Cuba is compañero / compañera, as it was in socialist Nicaragua and Chile.

* Nicaragua / Honduras – Operation Tellar, 1998

It weakened over the mountainous terrain, and after becoming a tropical depression over the Caribbean, Bret hit southern Nicaragua on the August 10 with 45 mph ( 72 km / h ) winds.

Later that day, the depression made landfall near the Nicaragua / Costa Rica border.