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  Nicaragua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Ortega and his Sandinista followers implemented a series of ambitious socialist reforms to the country, but the new president's rule was undermined by increasing civil war between varying politicial fractions.
Nicaragua is a constitutional republic with an elected president holding executive power.
The President, and the runner-up are both members of the National Assembly, as well, and the government operates according to pseudo-parliamentary rules.
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 Nicaragua biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Nicaragua's economy has historically been based on the export of cash crops such as bananas, coffee and tobacco.
About 9 per cent of Nicaragua's population is fl, and the fl population is concentrated on the east coast.
Nicaragua's pre-Colombian population consisted of the Nahuatl-speaking Nicarao people of the west, and six ethnic groups including the Miskitos, Ramas and Sumos in the Caribbean region.
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 List of Presidents of Niger|President Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The President is a member of the Federal Council elected by the Swiss Federal Assembly (the Swiss Parliament) for a year; and the President is merely ''primus inter pares'' (first among equals).
President for Life is a title assumed by some dictators to ensure that their authority or legitimacy is never questioned.
In FranceFrench legal terminology, the president of a court consisting of multiple judges is the foremost judge; he chairs the meeting of the court and directs the debates (and this thus addressed as "Mr President", ''Monsieur le Président'', or appropriate feminine forms).
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 Nicaragua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Nicaragua has seen U.S. military interventions and lengthy periods of military dictatorship, the most infamous being the rule of the Somoza family (supported by successive U.S. governments) for much of the early 20th century.
Ortega and the FSLN leadership implemented a series of ambitious socialist reforms to the country, but the new president's rule was undermined by increasing civil war in which the United States, under President Ronald Reagan, covertly funded anti-Communist rebel forces called Contras despite a 1982 Congressional amendment prohibiting aid.
About 9 percent of Nicaragua's population is fl or afronicaragüense, with the fl population concentrated on the country's eastern coast.
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 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Nicaragua
Nicaragua has seen U.S. military interventions and lengthy periods of military dictatorship, the most infamous being the rule of the Somoza family (supported by U.S. goverments) for much of the early 20th century.
Conflicts within the coalition eventually resulted in power being consolidated by Daniel Ortega, who was elected President (in elections marred by opposition refusal to participate but validated as free and fair by election observers from various Western democracies) in 1984.
About 9 per cent of Nicaragua's population is fl or afronicaragüense, with the fl population concentrated on the country's eastern coast.
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 friendly dictators
President Carter tried to cut US ties to WACL, but Ronald Reagan received campaign funds from the group, and WACL became involved with training and supplying contras in Argentina and Taiwan.
President Reagan claimed Rios Montt was given "a bum rap" by human rights groups, and that he was cleaning up problems inherited from his predecessor, General Romeo Lucas Garcia.
Trujillo was finally assassinated by the CIA in 1961 after he attempted to have President Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela murdered because of his criticism of Trujillo's brutal regime.
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 Articles - Nicaragua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Ortega and the FSLN leadership implemented a series of ambitious socialist reforms to the country, but the new president's rule was undermined by increasing civil war in which the United States, under President Ronald Reagan, openly funded anti-Communist rebel forces called Contras despite a 1982 Congressional amendment prohibiting aid.
Nicaragua's economy has historically been based on the export of cash crops such as bananas, coffee and tobacco.They thing they boasts the best rum in Central America and apparently is 3rd in beef quality behind Argentina and Brazil, but this data is very subjective, given the salubrity and quality problems Nicaragua's production suffer.
During the Contra War, much of the country's infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, and an economic blockade by the U.S. combined with the economic stagnation of the aligned Soviet bloc led to the virtual collapse of the economy.
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 Nicaragua Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The unexpected result was subject to a great deal of analysis and comment, and was attributed by commentators such as Noam Chomsky and S. Brian Wilson to the Contra threats to continue the war if the sandinistas retained power, the general war weariness of the Nicaraguan population, and extensive U.S. funding of the opposition.
The fl population is mostly of West Indian (Antillean) origin, the descendents of indentured labourers brought mostly from Jamaica and Haiti when the region was a British protectorate.
Nicaragua's pre-Colombian population consisted of the Nahuatl-speaking Nicarao people of the west after whom the country is named, and six other ethnic groups including the Miskitos, Ramas and Sumos along the Caribbean coast.
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 WHKMLA : History of Nicaragua, 1838-1870
In the 1840es a possible NICARAGUA CANAL was discussed, the U.S. government being primarily interested.
One reason for the occupation was to prevent the construction of a Nicaragua Canal by the U.S. In 1860, Britain and Nicaragua signed a treaty guaranteeing the autonomy of the Mosquito kingdom (which was to last until the autonomy was cancelled in 1894).
In 1855, U.S. political adventurer WILLIAM WALKER, with a hired 'army' invaded Nicaragua, took the city of Granada and declared himself president, receiving recognition from the U.S. government.
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 Nicaragua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The fl population is mostly of West IndiesWest Indian origin, the descendents of indentured labourers brought mostly from Jamaica when the region was a British protectorate.
There is also a small Middle Eastern community of Syrian, Armenian (people)Armenian, Palestinian and Lebanese people in Nicaragua with a total population of about 30,000, and an East Asian community of Japanese, Taiwanese and Chinese/ people of almost 8,000.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- President Enrique Bolanos declared a state of emergency on Monday, suspending parts of the constitution in order to confront a crisis caused by rising energy prices.
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 WHKMLA : History of Nicaragua, 1870-1918
President Zelaya cancelled the political autonomy of the MOSQUITO COAST, forcefully integrating the area into Nicaragua.
In 1885, Nicaragua ratified a treaty with the U.S., permitting the latter to dig a canal across the country connecting the two oceans; the treaty was not ratified by the U.S., thus remaining a dead letter.
President Zelaya also passed legislation aiming at the separation of church and state; Bishop Francisco Ullua y Barrios, protesting, was banned to Panama.
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 How the U.S. Purchased the 1990 Nicaragua Elections
The Nicaraguan Center was created by the Nicaragua Democratic Coordinating Committee (Coordindrea or CDN), the reactionary coalition that boycotted the 1984 Nicaragua elections under pressure from the U.S. in efforts to delegitimize the election results.
President Bush had promised in November 1989 that the devastating trade embargo against Nicaragua would be immediately lifted if the U.S.-backed presidential candidate, Violette Chamorro, was elected by a majority of the Nicaraguan people (Washington Post, Nov. 9, 1989).
Paul Reichler, a U.S. lawyer representing the Nicaragua government at the time, concluded that "Whatever revolutionary fervor the people once might have had was beaten out of them by the war and the impossibility of putting food in their children's stomachs" (L.A. Weekly, March 9-15, 1990).
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 Female Presidents
Acting President of the Congress and acting Deputy Head of State 1978-79.She was President of Partido Revolucionario de los Izquierda Nazional Gueiler 1979-94, Exile in France 1980-82, Ambassador in Embassy to West Germany 1982-83, and to Venezuela 1983-86 and since 1993 She was deposed by the 129
As President of the People's Chamber she was acting as the last Head of State of the German Democratic Republic, DDR/GDR before the reunification.
During the Civil War the President was killed and as the highest ranking remaining official, she became Acting President (27.10.93-5.2.94).
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Here we list those we have knowledge of and we also list some famous Estrada who are not really from the Estrada bloodline.
President of Ecuador in 1911: Emilio Estrada Carmona (Bio.
President of Guatemala from 1898 to 1920: Manuel Estrada Cabrera (Bio.
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Zelaya was of Nicaragua's liberal party and enacted a number of
In October of 1909 officers of Zelaya's government executed some captured rebels; two United States mercenaries were among them, and the U.S. government declared their execution grounds for formal intervention.
At the start of December United States Marines were landed on Nicaragua's Caribbean Sea coast.
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 U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Gutiérrez’s mission, which was nothing less than a replay of the 1990 Nicaraguan elections manufactured by Washington at a cost of over $15 million, was a clear indication that the American Rajah should not be trifled with.
Serving as vice president under the two previous Liberal Party presidents, Violeta Chamorro and Adolfo Alemán, Bolaños has stated that his presidency will build on the achievements allegedly made during those two administrations.
While both of those presidents were in office, however, Nicaragua was widely regarded as one of the most corrupt countries in the hemisphere and its economic situation deteriorated to the point that it rated as the second poorest country in Latin America.
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 Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center: newswire/23219   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
For instance, Franklin D. Roosevelt was a 32nd degree Freemason in the Scottish Rite and the 32nd President of the United States.
As sickening as it might appear, the president may have chosen him as Bob's hat number was 164 (and 1+6+4="11") to please his devil worshipping overlords watching from afar in Bavaria and throughout Europe and Asia.
January "1st" Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua List of Presidents of Nicaragua.
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However, the evidence has shown that they are the world's leading devil worshippers acting as if they believe they are self-privileged to operate, in their view, a giant worldwide orwellian 'animal farm'.
A ritual sacrifice to the devil was called for in the mid-1990's under then US president Clinton, a descendent of the Collin's family illuminati bloodline.
His Attorney General, Janet Reno, who on March "11th" 1993 was confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, followed the date prescribed by her satanic overlords and ordered the blood sacrifice of the entire Davidian church of WACO Texas in a fiery maelstrom on April "19th", 1993.
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 The Executive Branch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Vice President of the United States-President of the Senate
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Center for the Study of the Presidency (CSP)
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 > Nicaragua abcworld.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The unexpected result was subject to a great deal of analysis and comment, and was attributed by people such as Noam Chomsky and S. Brian Wilson to the Contra threats to continue the war if the sandinistas retained power, the general war weariness of the Nicaraguan population, and extensive U.S. funding of the opposition.
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 Vice Presidents
Prior to the passage of the 25th Amendment (ratified Feb. 10, 1967), there were no provisions for filling a vacancy in the vice presidency.
In the event of a vacancy, the president pro tempore took over most of the vice president's duties.
He became president Aug. 9, 1974, upon Nixon's resignation.
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 List of Aragonese Presidents|President Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
For more on other kinds of presidents, see #Non-governmental_presidentsNon-Governmental Presidents, below.
Only a tiny minority of modern republics do not have a head of state; examples include:
Many of them do not proclaim it officially "''for life''" even if it is evident that they are, like Fidel Castro of Cuba.
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 Encyclopedia: List of Presidents of Nicaragua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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 Nicaragua
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Jan 1848 San Juan del Norte ceded to Nicaragua.
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Executive branch
Chief of state includes the name and title of the titular leader of the country who represents the state at official and ceremonial functions but may not be involved with the day-to-day activities of the government.
elections: president and vice president elected on the same ticket by popular vote for five-year terms; election last held 11 November and 18 November 2001 (next to be held NA 2006); chairman of the Council of Ministers (prime minister) nominated by the president; deputy prime ministers nominated by the prime minister
elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 16 December 2001 (next to be held NA November 2006); prime minister appointed by the president from a list of candidates nominated by the National Assembly
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 Nicaragua
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