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.

In 1897, the United States ' Nicaraguan Canal Commission proposed this idea, as did the subsequent Isthmian Canal Commission in 1899.

In 2004, the Nicaraguan government again proposed a canal through the country — large enough to handle post-Panamax ships of up to 250, 000 tons, as compared to the approximately 65, 000 tons that the Panama Canal can accommodate.

The Intermodal System for Global Transport ( SIT Global ), involving Nicaraguan and Canadian and American investors, proposes a combined railway, oil pipeline, and fibre optic cable ; a competing group, the Inter-Ocean Canal of Nicaragua, proposes building a railway linking two ports on either coast.

* Nicaraguan Canal

This entity would resist further domination by the U. S. and guarantee that the proposed Nicaraguan Canal would remain under Latin American control.

Between 1970 and 1976 4, 252 Nicaraguan servicemen had been trained by the United States at the Inter-American Military Academy ( aka “ School of the Americas ”) at Fort Gulick in the Panama Canal Zone, in the Psychological and Special Warfare Academy at Fort Bragg, and at the Inter-American Defence College in Washington, DC.

Vanderbilt's original contract with the Nicaraguan government allowing him to operate the ATC also gave him exclusive rights to construct a Nicaragua Canal until 1861.

Frustrated, he left the United States for the ill-fated Nicaraguan Canal Project.

United States military interventions in Nicaragua were intended to prevent the construction of the Nicaraguan Canal by any nation but the United States.

It alleged that Americas Watch gave too much credence to alleged Contra abuses and systematically tried to discredit Nicaraguan human rights groups such as the Permanent Commission on Human Rights, which blamed the major human rights abuses on the Sandinistas.

In the report, Laverty observes that: " The entire board of directors the Permanent Commission, are members of or closely identify with the ' Nicaraguan Democratic Coordinating Committee ' ( Coordinadora ), an alliance of the more rightwing parties and COSEP, the business organization.

" The Sandinista army committed myriad atrocities against the Indian population, killing and imprisoning approximately 15, 000 innocent people .... According to the Nicaraguan Commission of Jurists, the Sandinistas carried out over 8, 000 political executions within three years of the revolution.

On March 14, 2007, he announced in a press conference held at Unica Catholic University that he had accepted a request made in January by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to preside over the Peace and Reconciliation Commission, which is charged with ensuring the implementation of signed agreements with Nicaraguans who were affected by the civil war of the 1980's.

A fact finding mission of 1985 – sponsored by the International Human Rights Law Group and the Washington Office on Latin America, and carried out independently of any Nicaraguan government interference or direction-found that the contras with some frequency deliberately targeted Nicaraguan citizens in acts of terroristic violence.

* 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.

Such Nicaraguan " patriots " were willing to do anything, just in order to be able to govern Nicaragua and administer the affairs of Nicaragua, i. e., to be the ones to carry out the buying and selling transactions.

When civil war broke out in Central America, he fought in various battles, but was killed when a Nicaraguan army overran the city of Tegucigalpa.

DEA officials in Washington denied the claim a few days later, pointing out that the Nicaraguan was a local fixer.

The suit and two others were subsequently thrown out by California courts after it was concluded that “ ontrary to their sworn testimony, most of the plaintiffs never worked on Dole-affiliated banana farms and none were involved in the DBCP application process ,” while similar lawsuits were filed in U. S. and Nicaraguan courts.

Their web site points out that they are " probably the only organization in the world to hold the Nicaraguan ' 10th Anniversary Medal of the Sandinista Revolution ' ( 1989 ), and the ' Thousand Points of Light ' award ( 1991 ) from the Bush administration.

' Doc ' Holliday parachuted out of an OA-10 Catalina into the Nicaraguan jungle to aid a crewmember who had parachuted from a crippled B-17 Flying Fortress.

In June 1985 most of the groups reorganized as the United Nicaraguan Opposition ( UNO ), under the leadership of Adolfo Calero, Arturo Cruz and Alfonso Robelo, all originally supporters of the anti-Somoza revolution.

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.

The preponderance of power also remained with the Sandinistas through their mass organizations, including the Sandinista Workers ' Federation (), the Luisa Amanda Espinoza Nicaraguan Women's Association (), the National Union of Farmers and Ranchers (), and most importantly the Sandinista Defense Committees ( CDS ).

These UCLA ’ s would “ sabotage ports, refineries, boats and bridges, and try to make it look like the contras had done it .” In January 1984, these UCLA ’ s performed their most famous, or infamous, operation, the last straw that led to the ratifying of the Boland Amendment, the mining of several Nicaraguan harbors

While most of the graves seem to be the result of summary executions by members of the Sandinista People's Army or the State Security, some contain the bodies of individuals executed by the Nicaraguan Resistance.

This frequently happens with sign languages, most famously in the case of Nicaraguan Sign Language, where deaf children with no language were placed together and developed a new language.

The most famous of these is the Nicaraguan Sign Language, a well documented case of what has happened in schools for the deaf in many countries.

* Alfonso Cortés, most renowned Nicaraguan poet after Rubén Darío ( 1893 – 1969 ).

The most contested debate at the congress was on the Nicaraguan revolution.

Perhaps the most notable alumni of Saint Leo University are Anastasio Somoza Debayle the former President of Nicaragua, his brother Luis ( also a Nicaraguan President ), Charles Henri Baker a Haitian industrialist and presidential candidate, musicians Stephen Stills and Desi Arnaz, the former General Manager of the Toronto Blue Jays J. P. Ricciardi, the Academy Award-Winning actor Lee Marvin, and Major League Baseball player Bob Tewksbury.

Nicaragua has no permanent Chinatown but the Chinese Nicaraguan community is centered around Managua and the Caribbean coast, most notably in Bluefields and Puerto Cabezas.

Physiographically, most of the municipality lies north and east of the Nicaraguan Depression or Graben in the western foothills of the central cordillera of the country.

A nacatamal is a Nicaraguan dish similar to the tamal ; yet unlike the tamales typical of Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and elsewhere in Latin America, the nacatamal is unique to Nicaragua both in its name and its culinary combination.

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.

# Decides that the United States of America, by certain attacks on Nicaraguan territory in 1983-1984, namely attacks on Puerto Sandino on 13 September and 14 October 1983, an attack on Corinto on 10 October 1983 ; an attack on Potosi Naval Base on 4 / 5 January 1984, an attack on San Juan del Sur on 7 March 1984 ; attacks on patrol boats at Puerto Sandino on 28 and 30 March 1984 ; and an attack on San Juan del Norte on 9 April 1984 ; and further by those acts of intervention referred to in subparagraph ( 3 ) hereof which involve the use of force, has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligation under customary international law not to use force against another State ;

In early March, 1988, the Nicaraguan Sandinista government launched Operation Danto to overrun Contra rebel supply caches in the San Andrés de Bocay region, crossing into Honduran territory in their drive.

Two Yankee citizens were taken prisoner for exploding a dynamite bomb just as the Nicaraguan military transport was coming down the San Juan River.

*-( a ) n ( countries / continents: Africa → African, Albania → Albanian, Algeria → Algerian, America → American, Andorra → Andorran, Angola → Angolan, Antigua → Antiguan, Armenia → Armenian, Asia → Asian, Australia → Australian, Austria → Austrian, Barbados → Bajan, Bolivia → Bolivian, Bosnia → Bosnian, Brunei → Bruneian, Bulgaria → Bulgarian, Cambodia → Cambodian, Chile → Chilean, Colombia → Colombian, Costa Rica → Costa Rican, Croatia → Croatian ( also " Croat "), Cuba → Cuban, Dalmatia → Dalmatian, El Salvador → Salvadoran, Eritrea → Eritrean, Estonia → Estonian, Ethiopia → Ethiopian, Europe → European, Equestria → Equestrian, Fiji → Fijian, Gambia → Gambian, Georgia → Georgian, Germany → German, Guatemala → Guatemalan, Guinea → Guinean, Haiti → Haitian, Honduras → Honduran, Hungary → Hungarian, India → Indian, Indonesia → Indonesian, Italy → Italian, Jamaica → Jamaican, Kenya → Kenyan, / South Korea → / South Korean, Latvia → Latvian, Liberia → Liberian, Libya → Libyan, Lithuania → Lithuanian, Macedonia → Macedonian, Malawi → Malawian, Malaysia → Malaysian, Mali → Malian, Mauritania → Mauritanian, Mauritius → Mauritian, Mexico → Mexican, Micronesia → Micronesian, Moldova → Moldovan, Mongolia → Mongolian, Morocco → Moroccan, Mozambique → Mozambican, Namibia → Namibian, Nauru → Nauruan, Nicaragua → Nicaraguan, Nigeria → Nigerian, Palau → Palauan, Paraguay → Paraguayan, Puerto Rico → Puerto Rican, Romania → Romanian, Russia → Russian, Saint Lucia → Saint Lucian, Samoa → Samoan, Saudi Arabia → Saudi Arabian, Serbia → Serbian ( also " Serb "), Singapore → Singaporean, Slovakia → Slovakian, Slovenia → Slovenian ( also " Slovene "), South Africa → South African, Sri Lanka → Sri Lankan, Syria → Syrian, Tanzania → Tanzanian, Tonga → Tongan, Tunisia → Tunisian, Tuvalu → Tuvaluan, Uganda → Ugandan, United States of America → American, Uruguay → Uruguayan, Venezuela → Venezuelan, Zambia → Zambian, Zimbabwe → Zimbabwean ; cities / states: Alaska → Alaskan, Alexandria → Alexandrian, Andalusia → Andalusian, Arizona → Arizonan, Atlanta → Atlantan, Baltimore → Baltimorean, Bavaria → Bavarian, Bohemia → Bohemian, California → Californian, Catalonia → Catalan, Chicago → Chicagoan, Cincinnati → Cincinnatian, Corsica → Corsican, Crete → Cretan, El Paso → El Pasoan, Galicia → Galician, Hanoi ( Vietnam ) → Hanoian, Hawaii → Hawaiian, Iowa → Iowan, Karelia → Karelian, Kiev → Kievan, Madeira → Madeiran, Miami → Miamian, Minneapolis → Minneapolitan, Minnesota → Minnesotan, Moravia → Moravian, Nebraska → Nebraskan, Nova Scotia → Nova Scotian, Ottawa → Ottawan, Pennsylvania → Pennsylvanian, Philadelphia → Philadelphian, Pomerania → Pomeranian, Regina → Reginan, Riga → Rigan, Rome → Roman, San Antonio → San Antonian, San Diego → San Diegan, San Francisco → San Franciscan, San Jose → San Josean, Sardinia → Sardinian, Silesia → Silesian, Sicily → Sicilian, Sofia → Sofian, Sumatra → Sumatran, Tahiti → Tahitian, Tasmania → Tasmanian, Transylvania → Transylvanian, Tucson → Tucsonan, Tulsa → Tulsan, Utah → Utahn, Victoria → Victorian, Wallachia → Wallachian )

From San Benito, it is about to the Nicaraguan capital and largest city of Managua.

Born Mauricio Jose Morales in Martinez, California and growing up in San Francisco, California, Benard is of Salvadorian and Nicaraguan ethnicity.

* FC San Marcos, Nicaraguan football club

The Solentiname Islands () are an archipelago towards the southern end of Lake Nicaragua ( also known as Lake Cocibolca ) in the Nicaraguan department of Río San Juan.

In 1979 he received the Bruno Kreysky Award for peace and freedom, Vienna, Austria, the Plaque for Peace and Freedom of the Nicaraguan People, San Francisco, United States of America, 1980 ; the Letter of Brotherhood of the Piarist Society, Managua, 1980 ; the Venezuelan Order of Francisco Miranda, 1981 ; the Distinction of Loyalty to the Pope, the Church and the Nicaraguan People, Central of Nicaraguan Workers ( CTN ), 1982.

In 1856 they were decisive to defeat William Walker's filibusteers in the Battle of San Jacinto on Sept 14th, 1856, where a column of 60 Matagalpa Indians with bow and arrows fought at the side of Nicaraguan Patriots winnig that battle, which marked the end of Walker adventure in Nicaragua.

The Battle of San Pedro Perulapán occurred here on September 25, 1839, in which Francisco Morazán with 800 Salvadorans defeated 2, 000 Honduran and Nicaraguan forces during the break-up of the Federal Republic of Central America.

The mayor is Carlos Cajina Loaisiga from Alliance for the Republic ( APRE ), brother of Fabricio Cajina Loaisiga, former mayor of San José de los Remates and vice-presidential candidate of Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance, currently second in the Nicaraguan general election, 2006 polls.