In power, he has made alliances with fellow Latin American socialists, namely Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and signed Nicaragua up to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.

On May 4, 1927, representatives from the two warring factions signed the Espino Negro accord, negotiated by Henry Stimson, appointed by U. S. President Calvin Coolidge as a special envoy to Nicaragua.

Recently, in March 2007, Poland and Nicaragua signed an agreement to write off $ 30. 6 million which was borrowed by the Nicaraguan government in the 1980s.

The archipelago has been under Colombian control since 1931 when a treaty was signed during US occupation of Nicaragua, giving Colombia control over the islands.

The 1914 Bryan-Chamorro Treaty granted perpetual canal rights to the U. S. in Nicaragua and was signed ten days before the U. S .- operated Panama Canal opened for use, thus preventing anyone from building a competing canal in Nicaragua without U. S. permission.

# Decides that, by the acts referred to in subparagraph ( 6 ) hereof the United States of America has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligations under Article XIX of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the United States of America and the Republic of Nicaragua signed at Managua on 21 January 1956 ;

# Decides that the United States of America, by the attacks on Nicaraguan territory referred to in subparagraph ( 4 ) hereof, and by declaring a general embargo on trade with Nicaragua on 1 May 1985, has committed acts calculated to deprive of its object and purpose the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956 ;

# Decides that the United States of America, by the attacks on Nicaraguan territory referred to in subparagraph ( 4 ) hereof, and by declaring a general embargo on trade with Nicaragua on 1 May 1985, has acted in breach of its obligations under Article XIX of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956 ;

# Decides that the United States of America is under an obligation to make reparation to the Republic of Nicaragua for all injury caused to Nicaragua by the breaches of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956 ;

The US signed the Sánchez-Merry Treaty with Nicaragua in case the negotiations for a canal through Colombia fell through, although the treaty was later rejected by John Hay.

The other countries who signed the agreement included: Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, the French Committee of National Liberation, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia.

* April 19 – Clayton – Bulwer Treaty is signed by the United States and Great Britain, allowing both countries to share Nicaragua and not claim complete control over the proposed Nicaragua Canal.

On July 24, Guatemala and Nicaragua signed a treaty of alliance against Morazán's Government.

Coppola argues that isolated family signed systems in Nicaragua already contain components that can be called linguistic ( though this does not mean she equates homesign with language ).

With that the agreement of PARLACEN and other political authorities was signed in October ( 8th, 15th and 16th ) 1987 by Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras.

On May 4, 1927, representatives from the two warring factions signed the Espino Negro accord, negotiated by Henry Stimson, appointed by U. S. President Calvin Coolidge as a special envoy to Nicaragua.

Academic cooperation agreements have been signed with the governments of the following countries ( in alphabetical order ): Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Honduras, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jamaica, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan ( R. O. C.

On 24 March 1928, the Abadía Administration under Manuel Esguerra, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Colombia to Managua, negotiated and signed the Esguerra-Bárcenas Treaty with José Bárcenas Meneses, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, in which Nicaragua recognized the sovereignty of Colombia over the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina and by which Colombia ceded claims over the Mosquito Coast, both territories that belonged to Colombia uti possidetis juris following Independence from Spain.

* Nicaraguan Sign Language, a unique new signed language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua

On September 10, 2008, with misgivings about fiscal transparency, the IMF released an additional $ 30 million to Nicaragua, the second tranche of its $ 110 million PRGF.

This shortfall, in turn, caused the Government of Nicaragua to fall out of compliance with its PRGF obligations and led to a suspension of PRGF disbursements.

* 1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.

Costa Rica shares a border with Nicaragua to the north ( 309 km long border ) and with Panama to the south ( 330 km long border ).

In the eastern half of the country, the San Juan River forms the northern border with Nicaragua.

The Guanacaste Range is in northern Costa Rica near the border with Nicaragua.

The main highland cities in the country's Central Valley are connected by paved all-weather roads with the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and by the Pan American Highway with Nicaragua and Panama, the neighboring countries to the North and the South.

Relations with Nicaragua and Venezuela have been strained over territorial disputes.

Maritime boundary dispute with Venezuela in the Gulf of Venezuela ; territorial disputes with Nicaragua over Archipelago de San Andrés y Providencia and Quita Sueño Bank.

* Anti-Somozistas who had supported the revolution but felt betrayed by the Sandinista government – e. g. Edgar Chamorro, prominent member of the political directorate of the FDN, or Jose Francisco Cardenal, who had briefly served in the Council of State before leaving Nicaragua out of disagreement with the Sandinista government's policies and founding the Nicaraguan Democratic Union ( UDN ), an opposition group of Nicaraguan exiles in Miami.

On May 1, 1985 President Reagan announced that his administration perceived Nicaragua to be " an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States ," and declared a " national emergency " and a trade embargo against Nicaragua to " deal with that threat.

Possible explanations include that the Nicaraguan people were disenchanted with the Ortega regime as well as the fact that already in November 1989, the White House had announced that the economic embargo against Nicaragua would continue unless Violeta Chamorro won.

*" The Contras ' Valley Forge: How I View the Nicaragua Crisis ", by Enrique Bermúdez ( with Michael Johns ), Policy Review magazine, Summer 1988.

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua also are negotiating a free trade agreement with Canada, and negotiations started on 2006 for a free trade agreement with Colombia.

The Honduras-El Salvador Border Protocol ratified by Honduras in May 1999 established a framework for a long-delayed border demarcation, which is currently underway ; with respect to the maritime boundary in the Golfo de Fonseca, the ICJ referred to the line determined by the 1900 Honduras-Nicaragua Mixed Boundary Commission and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua likely would be required.

His Marxist-Leninist government established close ties with Cuba, Nicaragua, and other communist bloc countries.

He would also successfully establish the border with Nicaragua and resist an invasion from Guatemala in 1906.

Through a peace settlement arranged by the US charge'd ' affaires in Tegucigalpa, Bonilla stepped down and the war with Nicaragua came to an end.

During his presidency, Carías cultivated close relations with his fellow Central American dictators, generals Jorge Ubico in Guatemala, Maximiliano Hernández Martínez in El Salvador, and Anastasio Somoza García in Nicaragua.

Relations with Nicaragua were somewhat more strained as a result of the continuing border dispute, but Carías and Somoza managed to keep this dispute under control throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

The 922-kilometer southeastern side of the triangle is the land border with Nicaragua ; it follows the Río Coco near the Caribbean Sea and then extends southwestward through mountainous terrain to the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific Ocean.

In Managua, Nicaragua, the Albertus Magnus International Institute, a business and economic development research center, was founded in 2004.

In front of the International Court of Justice, Nicaragua claimed that the contras were altogether a creation of the U. S. This claim was rejected.

In 1984, the Sandinista government filed a suit in the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) against the United States ( Nicaragua v. United States ), which resulted in a 1986 judgment against the United States.

* Nicaragua v. United States ( 1986 International Court of Justice judgement )

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.

Nicaragua has submitted three territorial disputes, one with Honduras another with Colombia, and the third with Costa Rica to the International Court of Justice for resolution.

The relationship between the two Latin American countries has evolved amid conflicts over the San Andrés y Providencia Islands located in the Caribbean sea close to the Nicaraguan shoreline and the maritime boundaries covering 150, 000 km² that included the islands of San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina and the banks of Roncador, Serrana, Serranilla and Quitasueño as well as the arbitrarily designed 82nd meridian west which Colombia claims as a border but which the International Court has sided with Nicaragua in disavowing.

The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America was a 1984 case of the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) in which the ICJ ruled in favor of Nicaragua and against the United States and awarded reparations to Nicaragua.

* 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

The International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit on behalf of workers in China, Nicaragua, Swaziland, Indonesia, and Bangladesh against Wal-Mart charging the company with knowingly developing purchasing policies particularly relating to price and delivery time that are impossible to meet while following the Wal-Mart code of conduct.

The Coliseum is named after baseball hall of famer Roberto Clemente, who died in a plane crash off Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina in 1972, while flying with relief articles to be given to victims of the Nicaragua earthquake.

The Mosquito Coast was incorporated into Nicaragua in 1894 ; however, in 1960 the northern part was granted to Honduras by the International Court of Justice.

However the June 1986 outcome of the International Court of Justice case Nicaragua v. United States created a " major shift in the regional context " which ultimately persuaded the other Central American leaders to accept Nicaragua as an equal partner.

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 decision generated some controversy: " stunned opposition lawmakers immediately suspected a secret deal between Mr. Alemán, ranked one of the world ’ s 10 most corrupt leaders ever by Transparency International, and Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua and leader of the Sandinista Party, who wields considerable influence and control over the courts.

After the LTF was dissolved, The PST helped to form the Bolshevik Faction which left the International late in 1979, partly in opposition to nature of the USFI's support for the FSLN's strategy and tactics in the revolution of Nicaragua.

In Nicaragua the International Children's Day is celebrated on June 1.

* The IATA code for Managua International Airport located in Managua, Nicaragua ; also known as the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport

Augusto Cesar Sandino International Airport () is the main airport in Managua, Nicaragua.