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	NICARAGUA - LoveToKnow Article on NICARAGUA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the great lacustrine depression of Nicaragua is collected all the drainage from the eastern versant of the volcanic mountains, from the sheer western escarpment of the main cordillera, and from a large area of northern Costa Rica.
		The executive is entrusted to a president similarly chosen for six years (instead of four) and aided by a cabinet representing the five ministries of foreign affairs and education, finance, internal administration and justice, war and marine, and public works.
		The successor of President Chamorro was General Zavala, whose administration brought Nicaragua to a higher degree of prosperity than she had ever known.
	19.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NI/NICARAGUA.htm (6545 words)

	Nicaragua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		The President, and the runner-up are both members of the National Assembly, as well, and the government operates according to pseudo-parliamentary rules.
		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.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/Nicaragua.htm (1890 words)

	InternationalReports.net : Nicaragua
		In November 2001, Enrique Bolaños was elected president of Nicaragua in the third democratic transition of power in the post-Sandinista era.
		In early April, President Bolaños and several members of his cabinet traveled to Washington, DC to meet with the missions of the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and discuss the current structural adjustment program and the restructuring of Nicaragua’s external debt.
		President Bolaños’s determination to completely eliminate corruption at all levels of society – from the highest levels of government, to street-level corruption and private sector peccadilloes – has become the hallmark of the new administration.
	www.internationalreports.net /special/nicaragua (932 words)

	NICARAGUA
		In Nicaragua, one of the most serious consequences of the armed conflict of the 1990s, which, fortunately, we overcome, was undoubtedly the existence of a huge quantity of anti-personnel mines throughout the national territory, a situation which even today claims numerous innocent victims.
		Nicaragua reaffirms its desire to do its utmost in the preparation of the third session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Ottawa Convention, to be held in our country in September 2001.
		In this connection, as stated by Dr. Arnoldo Aleman, President of Nicaragua, during the Millennium Summit, "the unbearable weight of an immense external debt represents an insurmountable barrier to overcoming poverty and unemployment.
	www.un.org /ga/webcast/statements/nicaraguaE.htm (1862 words)

	InternationalReports.net : Nicaragua 2002
		The “New Era” inaugurated by President Bolaños envisions a continuation and rapid acceleration of the nation’s substantial economic growth that began in 1990 with Nicaragua’s transition to democracy.
		The new administration of President Bolaños is actively pursuing greater regional integration of Central America, and has adopted a strong leadership role in the “Puebla-Panama Plan,” designed to create a common economic and physical infrastructure reaching from Southern Mexico all the way to Panama.
		President Bolaños’s determination to completely eliminate corruption at all levels of society has become the hallmark of the new administration.
	www.internationalreports.net /theamericas/nicaragua/2002/presidentbolanos.html (704 words)

	globalinfo.org - Dec 8, NICARAGUA (#26856)
		The former president, the head of the governing Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC), was also barred from holding public office, which put an end to the hopes entertained by a faction of his party, which wanted to get him reelected in 2006.
		Alemán, the first former president to be convicted of a crime in Nicaragua, is under house arrest in his El Chile estate, 20 kms from Managua, where Méndez transferred him on Nov. 26 from the Tipitapia prison on health grounds.
		President Bolaños -- who has the backing of only a handful of PLC lawmakers, as most of the party's legislators are loyal to Alemán -- told the press he was satisfied with the ruling, but surprised by Jerez's acquittal.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=26856 (751 words)

	Nicaragua in 2001 ( )
		He prevailed, had himself elected President of Nicaragua and was recognised by the US government.
		President Carter authorised emergency aid to Nicaragua but when Reagan took office in January 1981, he suspended all aid and started funding counterrevolutionary groups formed by ex soldiers of the Somoza National Guard and operating out of Honduras.
		Managua, on the southern shore of Lake Managua, became the capital of Nicaragua in 1858 as a compromise between liberal Leon to the north-west and conservative Grenada to the south-east.
	berclo.net /page01/01en-nicaragua.html (1335 words)

	Somoza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Somoza was the name of an influential family dictatorship in Nicaragua.
		Three of the Somozas served as President of Nicaragua.
		President Somoza was president of Nicaragua until he was overthrown by the Sandinistas.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Somoza (145 words)

	Nicaragua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nicaragua's two principal towns: Granada on Lake Nicaragua, and Leon, east of Lake Managua were founded in 1524 by Hernandez de Cordoba.
		Nicaragua gained its independence from Spain in 1821 and in 1838 it became an independent republic.In 1893, Jose Zulu led a Liberal revolt that brought him to power.
		Arnoldo Aleman is inaugurated as President with around 49 percent of the vote compared to Daniel Ortega's 39 percent, thus completing the first democratic and peaceful transfer of the presidency in Nicaragua's history.
	staff.esuhsd.org /~balochie/studentprojects/nicaragua (635 words)

	Remarks With His Excellency Enrique Bolaños, President of Nicaragua
		And this is something that President Bolaños has bravely and courageously stood for, as have the other four Presidents of the Central American countries involved, and I want to commend that for that.
		President, President Bolaños for the hard work that you have done on behalf of the people of Nicaragua to bring us to this important day.
		As President Bush put it when he last spoke at the OAS Summit in Fort Lauderdale, the United States shares a commitment with you to build an Americas that lives in liberty, trades in freedom and grows in prosperity.
	www.state.gov /secretary/rm/2005/49650.htm (2940 words)

	George Bush Presidential Library and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For with the democratization of Nicaragua, we are one crucial step closer to the incredible goal of becoming this world's first fully democratic hemisphere.
		President, it is our responsibility as leaders of two democratic nations to begin fertilizing the seed of a new friendship, a friendship based on our shared belief in democracy and mutual respect.
		President Chamorro spoke in Spanish, and her remarks were translated by an interpreter.
	bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1991/91041700.html (1014 words)

	Feb. 2002: Nicaragua: New president takes on Alemán legacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Earlier in the week the National Assembly elected a candidate known to be in effect a proxy for Alemán to the presidency of the legislature with the expectation that, as soon as he left office, Alemán would assume the leadership role.
		Nicaragua’s health care system is in dire straits, say many inside the health ministry itself: After months of denial, the Nicaraguan health ministry finally acknowledged that the health service is in serious crisis.
		Nicaragua is encouraged to rely on its area of competitive advantage in the global marketplace to get it out of poverty.
	www.rtfcam.org /report/volume_22/No_1/article_3.htm (2121 words)

	Nicaragua -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After declaring independence from Spain (1821), Nicaragua was briefly part of the Mexican Empire of Agustín de Iturbide and then (1825-38) a member of the Central American Federation.
		The United States was interested in a transisthmian canal (see Nicaragua Canal), and its interest was heightened by the discovery of gold in California.
		Anastasio Somoza Debayle was elected president in 1967.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/nicrgu_history.asp (1716 words)

	Nicaragua Ex-President Gets 20 Years (phillyBurbs.com) \| Latin America and Caribbean
		MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman, who returned from exile under the leftist Sandinistas to revive the party of a former dictator, was convicted on corruption charges Sunday and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
		Aleman rebuilt and renamed Nicaragua's Liberal Party, a political force that was damaged by its association with the Somoza family dictatorship.
		Nicaragua's penitentiary system will establish the conditions of Aleman's confinement in coordination with police.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/88-12082003-208992.html (680 words)

	Profile of Nicaragua
		Nicaragua was badly hurt by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, but not as badly as Honduras, the most adversely affected country in the region.
		Another political and economic success for Nicaragua was President Aleman's renegotiation of the country's external debt burden with the so-called "Paris Club" of lenders.
		Regarding real property investment, Nicaragua's focus is on attracting foreign retirees to buy and then move to Nicaragua full-time for their retirement.
	www.realtor.org /intlprof.nsf/All/Nicaragua?OpenDocument (1057 words)

	Presentation of the National Endowment for Democracy’s Democracy Service Medal Award
		President Bolanos came into office with the knowledge that a better Nicaragua was not only possible, it was predestined.
		But the President’s campaign against corruption must be won if the reforms this nation so urgently needs to strengthen the economy and bring all Nicaraguans back to work are to have any hope of lasting success.
		The people of Nicaragua were not only voting in such numbers to express their confidence in a candidate who promised them change, they were voting to express their faith — sometimes battered but always stubborn — in the enduring promise of democracy.
	www.state.gov /s/d/former/armitage/remarks/18691.htm (973 words)

	Timeline: Nicaragua
		As president, his first decree is to sanction slavery in Nicaragua.
		1988: Nicaragua is a disaster zone, ravaged by civil war and the onslaught of Hurricane Hugo.
		1990: The moderate UNO Coalition candidate, Violeta Chamorro is elected president of Nicaragua.
	www.stanford.edu /group/arts/nicaragua/discovery_eng/timeline (1103 words)

	Nicaragua
		Nicaragua is mountainous in the west, with fertile valleys.
		Nicaragua, which derives its name from the chief of the area's leading Indian tribe at the time of the Spanish Conquest, was first settled by the Spanish in 1522.
		Nicaragua Canal - Nicaragua Canal, proposed waterway between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107839.html (906 words)

	Bolaqos inaugurated President of Nicaragua
		Two former U.S. ambassadors to Nicaragua attended: John Maisto and Lino Gutierrez, the former now an advisor to the National Security Council and the latter acting (until January 11) assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.
		This surprised observers because, besides being considered by many to be Nicaragua's most corrupt president ever (a contest with serious contenders especially among the Somozas), Aleman had just bested Bolaqos in a political battle over who would hold the presidency of the National Assembly.
		Out-going president Aleman had been maneuvering for weeks to become president of the Assembly using a stand-in for the first few days because, given the calendar, he would still be President when Assembly leadership was selected.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/47/421.html (706 words)

	'Nicaragua'
		Nicaragua is the largest country of Central America.
		Leonardo Argüello became president and Somoza García remained as chief director of the National Guard.
		The Arias Plan was signed by the presidents of the five Central American republics (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica) at a presidential summit held in Esquipulas, Guatemala.
	www.aeroflight.co.uk /waf/americas/nicaragua/Nicaragua-Home.htm (706 words)

	George Bush Presidential Library and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		President Bush this morning called President Chamorro of Nicaragua and President Endara of Panama to inform them of the congressional passage of the Panama-Nicaragua aid bill.
		President Chamorro and President Endara expressed their gratitude for the congressional action and thanked President Bush for his efforts on behalf of their countries.
		President Bush expressed his support of their efforts and stated the continued U.S. desire for close relations and for the continued partnership with Panama and Nicaragua and the rest of Latin America.
	bushlib.tamu.edu /research/papers/1990/90052502.html (151 words)

	Headline News
		On May 22, the president of Nicaragua, Enrique Bolanos, and a delegation of government officials, accompanied by Foreign Minister Chien Yu-Hsin, toured the Tzu Chi Foundation headquarters in Hualien, Taiwan, and visited Dharma Master Cheng Yen.
		President Bolanos stated that when disasters occur in the world, they become opportunities for expressions of human kindness.
		President Bolanos and the Nicaraguan delegation are visiting Taiwan from May 20 to 23 at the invitation of the Foreign Ministry of Taiwan.
	www.tzuchi.org /Global/news/articles/20020522.html (578 words)

	Nicaragua on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nicaragua is bordered on the north and northwest by Honduras, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by Costa Rica, and on the southwest by the Pacific Ocean.
		A stenciled wall in Nicaragua with the iconic photograph of a Sandinista hurling a Molotov cocktail.
		A peace plan for Nicaragua: the last chance for national reconciliation and peace.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Nicrgu.asp (704 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Deal to end crisis in Nicaragua
		Nicaragua's President, Enrique Bolanos, has announced an agreement with the opposition-controlled Congress to end a deepening political crisis.
		The Nicaraguan president, who took office in 2002 after a landslide victory over Mr Ortega, had claimed he was the innocent victim of a pact between the Sandinistas and his own Liberal Party.
		Former president Aleman is serving a 20-year sentence for fraud and money-laundering, but he still commands the loyalty of many of his party's legislators.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4329688.stm (275 words)

	Calvin Coolidge, "Intervention in Nicaragua"
		It is well known that in 1912 the United States intervened in Nicaragua with a large force and put down a revolution, and that from that time to 1925 a legation guard of American Marines was, with the consent of the Nicaragua government, kept in Managua to protect American lives and property.
		In October 1924 an election was held in Nicaragua for president, vice-president, and members of the Congress.
		As President Solorzano had resigned and was then residing in California, and as the vice-president, Doctor Sacasa, was in Guatemala, having been out of the country since November 1925, the action of Congress in designating Señor Díaz was perfectly legal and in accordance with the constitution.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/cc101.htm (1934 words)

	Political History of Nicaragua
		As president he seeks US annexation (wants Nicaragua to become part of the US) and his first decree is to sanction slavery.
		A popular form of theater in Nicaragua has traditionally been the Gegense Theater, a theater were indigenous folks satirize Spanish conquistadors.
		The revolution of Nicaragua involved the country as a whole and made its education the priority.
	www.stanford.edu /group/arts/nicaragua/discovery_eng/history (909 words)

	ABC News: Nicaragua Says It Will Destroy Missiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nicaragua had 2,000 SA-7 missiles, which are portable weapons of Soviet design, left over from the Latin American country's days as a client of the Soviet Union.
		Nicaragua had also previously suggested it would eliminate all its remaining SA-7s in exchange for planes and radar modules from the U.S. military, totaling about $80 million in aid.
		The leftist Sandinista government, which ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1989 after the fall of a U.S.-supported authoritarian right-wing regime, obtained the missiles from the Soviet Union to fight off U.S.-backed Contra rebels.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=248914 (621 words)

	[19 Sep 1997] : NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS PRESIDENT OF NICARAGUA TO VISIT HEADQUARTERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The President of Nicaragua, Arnoldo Aleman Lacayo, will visit United Nations Headquarters on Monday and Tuesday, 22 and 23 September, to address the General Assembly.
		On 22 September, President Aleman Lacayo and his party will arrive at the Delegates Entrance at 12:49 p.m., where he will be received by the Secretary-General.
		The President will then be escorted to the West Foyer to wait for the time of his statement.
	www.un.org /news/Press/docs/1997/19970919.NOTE5443.html (231 words)

	Nicaragua's President could be judged on election fraud - PRAVDA.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The legislature also made known that even conservative President Enrique Bolanos could lose his immunity and be judged on similar charges as the scandal grows bigger.
		National Assembly Board Secretary Maria Auxiliadora Aleman, said that President's situation depends now on the National Assembly's decision and reported the violations committed by the governmental officials, although non of them is currently in the country.
		In the meantime, President Bolanos stated he would never accept being similarly accused because such charges are part of the political conspiracy of Liberals and Sandinistas as a pretext for a coup d'etat.
	english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=16250 (396 words)

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