One female, collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua, was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent ( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long ).

* 1838 – Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.

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.

* Immigrants-385 899 = 9. 03 % ( Mostly from Nicaragua, Colombia and United States )

The contras ( some references use the capitalized form, " Contras ") is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua that were active from 1979 through to the early 1990s.

He confined himself to operate in the southern part of Nicaragua ; after a press conference he was holding on 30 May 1984 was bombed, he " voluntarily withdrew " from the contra struggle.

" After the U. S. enforced the embargo, Nicaragua was isolated from the West, forcing the Sandinistas to rely more on Eastern bloc military and economic assistance even though Moscow declined to offer the quantity of aid it provided to close communist allies.

The U. S. blocked enforcement of the ICJ judgment by the United Nations Security Council and thereby prevented Nicaragua from obtaining any actual compensation.

In the southeast, the Golfo de Fonseca separates it from Nicaragua.

As a congressman, LaGuardia was a tireless and vocal champion of progressive causes, from allowing more immigration and removing U. S. troops from Nicaragua to speaking up for the rights and livelihoods of striking miners, impoverished farmers, oppressed minorities, and struggling families.

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

López Gutiérrez also solicited support from the liberal government of Guatemala and even from the conservative regime in Nicaragua.

Honduran producers seek relief from a relatively low official price of 25 lempiras per kilogram of sugar by smuggling sugar across the borders to Nicaragua and El Salvador, where the support prices are higher.

Nicaragua imposed a 35 % tariff against Honduras due to the dispute, and the matter is currently awaiting a decision from the ICJ.

He began withdrawing American troops from Nicaragua and Haiti ; he also proposed an arms embargo on Latin America and a one-third reduction of the world's naval power, which was called the Hoover Plan.

Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista and anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua.

* 1824 – Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.

Lesbian consciousness began in Nicaragua in 1986, when the Sandinista National Liberation Front expelled gay men and lesbians from its midst.

An effort to promote visibility from 1991 to 1992 provoked the government to declare homosexuality illegal in 1994, effectively ending the movement, until 2004, when Grupo Safo – Grupo de Mujeres Lesbianas de Nicaragua was created, four years before homosexuality became legal again.

While this action was interpreted as an attack upon leftism, Sokal, who was a committed supporter of the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua during the 1980s, intended it as a critique from within the Left.

Image: Lake Nicaragua. JPG | Lake Nicaragua from Ometepe

Demonstrating independence from the U. S., Mexico supported the Cuban government since its establishment in the early 1960s, the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua during the late 1970s, and leftist revolutionary groups in El Salvador during the 1980s.

Pit crater structure and processes governing persistent activity at Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua.

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.

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.

Nicaragua is negotiating a trade agreement with the European Union as part of a Central American bloc.

# 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 ;

After the United States Congress turned down continued funding of the Contras in April 1985, the Reagan administration ordered a total embargo on United States trade with Nicaragua the following month, accusing the Sandinista government of threatening United States security in the region.

Since there was no inter-oceanic route joining the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at the time, and the transcontinental railway had not been completed, a major trade route between New York City and San Francisco ran through southern Nicaragua.

Although the viceroy's attempts were not 100 % effective, they were effective enough that Mexico City merchants lost control of the Pacific trade, which fell under the control of contrabandists operating from the smaller ports in Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Chomsky argues that the Reagan administration utilized fear and nationalist rhetoric to distract the public from the poor economic situation that the U. S. was facing, finding scapegoats in the form of the leftist governments of Libya, Grenada and Nicaragua, as well as the international drug trade.

The Canada Central American Free Trade Agreement was a proposed free trade agreement between Canada and the Central American states of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, collectively referred to as the CA4.

There is a drier period from February to April, but the trade winds ensure that unlike the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, rain still falls frequently during this period.

It arose in the context of a U. S. desire to respond with aid and trade to leftist movements that were active in some countries of the region, such as the guerrillas in El Salvador and the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

People and goods would then be transported by stagecoach over a narrow strip of land near the city of Rivas, before reaching the Pacific Ocean | PacificAt the time, a major trade route between New York City and San Francisco ran through southern Nicaragua.

The resolution of the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua and across-the-board budget cuts made in all ministries has brought reduced funding for the Honduran armed forces.

The flawed municipal elections of November 2008 prompted a number of European donors to suspend direct budget support to Nicaragua, a move that created a severe budget shortfall for the government.

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.

It is owned and paid for by several countries: Venezuela ( which provides 54 % of the network's budget ), Argentina ( 15 %), Cuba ( 14 %), Uruguay ( 7 %), Bolivia ( 5 %) and Nicaragua ( 5 %).

The budget was set at six million dollars with most of the film being shot in Granada, Nicaragua.