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 continues to post growth, with preliminary indicators showing the Nicaraguan economy growing an additional 5 % in 2011.

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.

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

According to the World Bank Nicaragua's GDP was around $ 4. 9 US billion dollars.

In 2008, the Finnish government revoked a 1. 95 million euro aid package meant for Nicaragua in protest of what it alleged was a lack of transparency in Nicaragua's national budget and its municipal elections.

As was typical in guerrilla warfare, they were engaged in a campaign of economic sabotage in an attempt to combat the Sandinista government and disrupted shipping by planting underwater mines in Nicaragua's Corinto harbour, an action condemned by the World Court as illegal.

Nicaragua's only opposition newspaper, La Prensa, was subject to strict censorship.

Human Rights Watch also stated in its 1989 report on Nicaragua that: " Under the Reagan administration, U. S. policy toward Nicaragua's Sandinista government was marked by constant hostility.

* Mosquito Coast ( Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast )-This area was first settled in 1630.

Also after his return, he was appointed chief of staff of the National Guard, ( Nicaragua's national army ), by his father, who had previously given many important posts to family members and close personal friends.

In 2008 he was honored by being selected as Nicaragua's flag-bearer at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

Zelaya was of Nicaragua's liberal party and enacted a number of progressive programs, including improving public education, building railroads, and establishing steam ship lines and enacting constitutional rights that provided for equal rights, property guarantees, habeas corpus, compulsory vote, compulsory education, the protection of arts and industry, minority representation, and the separation of state powers.

These two negotiated the complicity and treason of Nicaragua's military governor on the Atlantic Coast -- General Juan José Estrada, to whom the Presidency or administration of the country was offered as reward.

In 1981 he went to Honduras to train Contras who were fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government, which was supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union ; the Army of El Salvador ; and the Honduras death squads.

The invasion, backed-up by Nicaragua's leader, Anastasio Somoza García, was condemned by the OAS and the international community.

By then, the United States was involved in suppressing further socialist revolts in the region and saw Costa Rica as a stable ally in which to base their operations against Nicaragua's Sandinista government.

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.

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

Its name was changed once more in February 2007 to its current name by President Daniel Ortega in honor of Nicaragua's national hero, Augusto César Sandino.

The national baseball park in Managua ( Nicaragua's capital city ), Dennis Martínez National Stadium, was named in his honor.

It was formed to oppose Nicaragua's revolutionary Sandinista government following the 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle.

Sandinista defector Alvaro Baldizón confirmed that Cuban influence in Nicaragua's Interior Ministry ( MINT ) was more extensive than was widely believed at the time, and Cuban " advice " and " observations " were treated as though they were orders.

It was a railroad terminus and Nicaragua's largest Pacific port.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Contras based in Costa Rica operated on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, which is sparsely populated by indigenous groups including the Miskito, Sumo, Rama, Garifuna, and Mestizo.

* Nicaragua's Slow March to Communism by Joshua Muravchik Washington, DC: Cuban American National Foundation 1986 ( CANF pamphlet # 16 )

( Nicaragua's Spanish colonization originated from the direction of the Pacific Ocean, which was called the Southern Sea by the Spaniards.

Afterwards, he acquired control of several of Nicaragua's gold mines, which had been destroyed during raids by Sandino's forces.

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

San Ramon was historically settled by a mixture of Sumo and Miskito peoples from Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, as well as by Chontales Indians, who are a branch stemming from the ancient Mayans.

Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels.

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.

Clarridge was also instrumental in organizing and recruiting Contra forces to overthrow Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government.

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.

The construction of the canal would more than double Nicaragua's GDP based on the canal alone ( exclusive of other investments which were estimated in Nicaragua as a result of the canal's construction ).

Time magazine in 1983 published reports of human rights violations in an article which stated that " According to Nicaragua's Permanent Commission on Human Rights, the regime detains several hundred people a month ; about half of them are eventually released, but the rest simply disappear.

At the start of December, United States Marines landed in Nicaragua's Bluefields port, supposedly to create a neutral zone to protect foreign lives and property but which also acted as a base of operations for the anti-Zelayan rebels.

Foreign investment grew during his administration, which helped to improve Nicaragua's infrastructure.

This organization remains the principal U. S. affiliate of the Socialist International, which includes socialist parties as diverse as the Swedish and German Social Democrats, Nicaragua's FSLN, and the British Labour Party.

The dish has several variations including the addition of coconut oil and / or grated coconut which is primarily prepared on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast.

When opponents voiced their interest in constructing a canal through Nicaragua, which was a less politically volatile nation, Bunau-Varilla actively campaigned throughout the Northeast, carrying pictures and postage stamps of Nicaragua's Mt.

The agreements he signed in 1849 laid the foundations for the future Clayton-Bulwer Treaty ( signed 19 April 1850 in Washington, D. C .), under which the United States justified interference in Nicaragua's internal affairs.

The goal was to undermine European financial strength in the region, which threatened American interests to construct a canal in the isthmus, and also to protect American private investment in the development of Nicaragua's natural resources.