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 Nicaragua's capital city, Managua, it is only celebrated for 2 days.

Lewites opened Nicaragua's only amusement park, Hertylandia ( named after himself ), between Jinotepe and San Marcos.

The Cañas – Jerez Treaty states that Nicaragua owns the waters of the river and that Costa Rica can only use it for commercial navigation on certain parts of the river at Nicaragua's discretion.

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.

Domestic flight duties were given to Nicaragua's domestic flag carrier, La Costena, who also joined the TACA Regional alliance.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.