Ortega was overwhelmingly elected President in 1984, but the long years of war had decimated Nicaragua's economy and widespread poverty ensued.

Nicaragua's economy is focused primarily on the agricultural sector.

Nicaragua's economy was devastated in the 1980s by the Contra War, which saw the destruction of much of the country's infrastructure.

Nicaragua's economy has also produced a construction boom, the majority of which is in and around Managua.

An important reason, regardless of perspective, was that after a decade of the U. S. backed war and embargo, Nicaragua's economy and infrastructure were badly damaged and the United States obviously supported only parties in opposition to the Sandinista.

In the last 12 years, tourism has grown 394 %, the rapid growth has led it to become Nicaragua's second largest source of foreign capital.

A third force, Misurasata, appeared among the Miskito, Sumo and Rama Amerindian peoples of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, who in December 1981 found themselves in conflict with the authorities following the government's efforts to nationalize Indian land.

As Nicaragua's government collapsed and the National Guard commanders escaped with Somoza, the U. S. first promised and then denied them exile in Miami.

Georgia responded to Nicaragua's concurrent recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by cutting diplomatic relations with the Central American state at the end of November 2008.

Members that sided with the United States in opposing Nicaragua's claims did not challenge the Court's jurisdiction, nor its findings, nor the substantive merits of the case.

Nicaragua's dealings with the armed opposition in El Salvador, although it might be considered a breach with the principle of non-intervention and the prohibition of use of force, did not constitute " an armed attack ", which is the wording in article 51 justifying the right of self-defence.

Reasons for the contraction included the reluctance of foreign banks to offer new loans, the diversion of funds to fight the new insurrection against the government, and, after 1985, the total embargo on trade with the United States, formerly Nicaragua's largest trading partner.

In Nicaragua, the U. S. expressed particular concern with respect to anti-union activity at two apparel factories in the Las Mercedes Free Trade Zone, and successfully sought the government's assurances that workers at those factories would be informed of their rights under Nicaragua's Labor Code.

She will work there with Nicaraguan children in need, and will help the wife of Nicaragua's President Enrique Bolaños.

The FSLN won for the first time in ten years the municipality of Managua, Nicaragua's capital city with its candidate Herty Lewites that pulled 44 % of the votes.

The S / LPD collaborated with Central Intelligence Agency propaganda experts and Army psychological operations specialists to disseminate what it called " white propaganda " with the goal of influencing public opinion and spurring Congress to continue to fund the Reagan administration's military campaign against Nicaragua's Sandinista government.

They were both recently honored with Nicaragua's highest cultural distinction, the Order of Rubén Darío.

In 1987, Vlady was invited by Nicaragua's Sandinista Government to paint a fresco in the Palacio Nacional ( Managua ) with the Canadian-Mexican

Because further negotiating would require Habib to meet directly with Nicaragua's President, Daniel Ortega, President Reagan forbade him to travel.

Greytown lies on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast just to the south of the Mosquito Coast near the border with Costa Rica.

* Ex-guardsmen of the Nicaraguan National Guard and other right wing figures who had fought for Nicaragua's ex-dictator Somoza – these later were especially found in the military wing of the FDN.

The ICJ held that the U. S. had violated international law by supporting the contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government and by mining Nicaragua's harbors.

Restoration of the sugar quota to Nicaraguan growers has been a major blow to Honduras's small independent producers, who had added most of Nicaragua's quota to their own during the United States embargo of Nicaragua.

U. S. motives included differences over the proposed Nicaragua Canal, Nicaragua's potential as a destabilizing influence in the region, and Zelaya's attempts to regulate foreign access to Nicaraguan natural resources.

The ICJ held that the U. S. had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government and by mining Nicaragua's harbors.

" The alleged violations included attacks on Nicaraguan facilities and naval vessels, the mining of Nicaraguan ports, the invasion of Nicaraguan air space, and the training, arming, equipping, financing and supplying of forces ( the " Contras ") and seeking to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista government.

Red Christmas aimed to seize territory on Nicaragua's mainland and overthrow the Nicaraguan government.

A member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987.

By covertly disseminating intelligence leaks to journalists, it sought to trump up a Nicaraguan " threat ," and to sanctify the U. S .- backed Contra guerrillas fighting Nicaragua's government as " freedom fighters.

He is the reputed planner of the clandestine mining of Nicaragua's harbors during the Nicaraguan Revolution.

The decision to revert to the emblems used by the United Provinces of Central America was taken in 1908 and reflected Nicaragua's aspirations for the rebirth of the political entity formed by the 5 nations.

He also shut out the powerful Cuban national team in a tournament in Colombia in 1976 beating them 5 – 0 and also shut out the USA team 4 – 0 in 1977 on a tournament played in Nicaragua, attaining status as one Nicaragua's best amateur pitchers.

Textiles and apparel account for nearly 60 % of Nicaragua's exports.

The U. S. is the country's largest trading partner, providing 25 % of Nicaragua's imports and receiving about 60 % of its exports.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

Based in Honduras, Nicaragua's northern neighbor, under the command of former National Guard Colonel Enrique Bermúdez, the new FDN commenced to draw in other smaller insurgent forces in the north.

Nicaragua's powerful President José Santos Zelaya saw this friendship pact as an alliance to counter Nicaragua and began to undermine Bonilla.

The outlook for the sugar industry, which had boomed during the 1980s when Honduran producers were allowed to fill Nicaragua's sugar quota to the United States, seemed bleak in 1993.

Most of Nicaragua's Caribbean lowlands area was inhabited by tribes that migrated north from what is now Colombia.

Eastern Nicaragua's population consisted of extended families or tribes.

In 1524, he established permanent settlements in the region, including two of Nicaragua's principal towns: Granada on Lake Nicaragua and León east of Lake Managua.

Much of Nicaragua's politics since independence has been characterized by the rivalry between the liberal elite of León and the conservative elite of Granada.

Consumer Price inflation have also curtailed since 2008, when Nicaragua's inflation rate hovered at 19. 82 %.

In April 2006, the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement went into effect, expanding export opportunities for Nicaragua's agricultural and manufactured goods.