A Brief History of Costa Rica

The Nicaraguan government is fair and balanced. Like the United States, Nicaragua has a republic form of government with three branches. The capital of Nicaragua is Managua. Nicaraguans pick their political parties, depending on their personalities. Daniel Ortega is the president of Nicaragua. As a result, this government promotes peace in Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is surrounded by its beautiful nature including its incredible history. The name ‘Nicaragua’ came from a chief named Nicarao. He was chief to a digenous tribe that settled in Lake Nicaragua around late 1400’s and early 1500’s. In 1524 Hernandez de Cordoda was the first Spanish settler to live in the region of Granada on Lake Nicaragua and Leon Managua. Nicaragua gained its independents from Spain in 1821, making the country part of the Mexican Empire and becoming a member of independent Central American. Nicaragua became an independent republic.

This revolutionary board started a democratic process of the political life, and called to the citizens for a constituent and they had democratic elections and the winner was Juan José Arevalo as the president. It is also important to mention that when Ubico resigned Guatemala did not have external

n the 1800’s a lot of people from Europe started to come into Nicaragua. Also families from Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Germany moved to Nicaragua to set up their own businesses to do with money. They established coffee businesses, newspapers, hotels and banks. The U.S. government negotiated with President Jose Santos Zelaya to get land so their would be a canal through Nicaragua in the late 1800’s. The minister of Nicaragua, Luis Felipe Corea, went to Washington and wrote a letter to the U.S. Secretary of State John Hay addressing the needed support of a canal by the Zelaya government. The Zanchez-Merry Treaty was signed with Nicaragua regarding the canal through Columbia but fell through because it was rejected by John Hay. The Spooner Act,

We ate at a restaurant there in which the owner made ox carts. He did all of the woodwork using hydroelectricity with a waterwheel in the back. They were all also hand painted and hand carved pieces. It was very beautiful. We finally got to Turriabla that night. The next day we went to the college and botanical gardens of CATIE. In the botanical gardens we got to try all of the different fruits grown in Costa Rica. They are all very good and different tasting. Even the mangos and pineapples taste so much better there. Now that we are back I dislike the ones here. One example of something we tried there was called the miracle fruit. It made anything you ate afterwards that was sour taste sweet and it actually worked. We toured the coffee plantation there as well as the college campus and had more traditional Costa Rican food in the cafeteria there. Finally, in Turriabla we went to a fruit market and an ice cream shop and practiced our Spanish. We then prepared for our third stop.

Nicaragua is the largest Central American country and was settled in as a Spanish colony back in the 1520's. In 1522 Spanish explorer Gil Gonzalez de Avila named the colony "Nicaragua" after an Amerindian chief named Nicarao who once ruled the area, making Nicaragua have Spanish and Indian cultures. Back in 1523-24 Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba officially completed his exploration of Nicaragua. In 1838 Nicaragua fully gained its independence from Spain. William Walker assumed presidency over the country in 1856, and had seeked U.S. annexation as well as sanctioning slavery. General Jose Santos Zelaya was Nicaragua's first dictator that took power in 1893. National hero Cesar Augusto Sandino starts a rebellion against US occupiers and other

Costa Rica, a country of Central America, covers an area of 19,730 square miles. The capital is San José. Extending from northwest to southeast, Costa Rica is bounded on the north by Nicaragua, along its 185-mile northeastern coastline by the Caribbean Sea, on the southeast by Panama, and along its 630-mile southwestern coastline by the Pacific Ocean.

This stance made him popular amongst conservatives as well. While he started his ten year term with large support, the cracks slowly started to show as the years progressed. In the beginning, his wife Evita helped grow his appeal as she became a cult figure and created woman’s institutions like a women Perónist party. But after years of a healthy looking economy and growth, problems started to arise in 1949. Inflation began to rise and unemployment grew. Perón tried to fix this by creating new government jobs to make it look as if there was no problem. Many of his political opponents were tortured, detained, or exiled. This also led to the signs of huge government corruption. After being elected for another term in 1952, Perón tries to make his wife vice president to which the military leaders said he was not allowed. Shortly after his reelection, Evita dies of cancer. This along with the seemingly unfixable problem which was the economy, assassination plots began to be muttered. Military rebellions began to break out around the country and Perón had the police round up his opponents. Seeing the country in chaos, Perón resigns in 1955 and is exiled to Paraguay and then Spain. The military was in control again and proceeded to ban the Perónist party. With Perón setting a precedent for mass protest in the country, the 20 years before the beginning of the dirty war were a battle between military intervention and the

The Mayan civilization existed in what today is Central America, between 250 AD and 900 AD. They grew to have more than 40 cities with populations ranging from 5,000 to 50,000 people per city. These facts make their demise a complete mystery to the rest of us who have live after this period and know of their great innovations in subjects including Astrology, Architecture, Religion and Agriculture.

The current President of Mexico Ignacio Comonfort was ousted by the Conservatives and he fled to the United States. Benito Juarez then became the new President of Mexico. Since the capitol was taken Juarez had his government flee to the Mexican state of Veracruz for the remainder of the war. During this conflict Juarez had to hold the Liberals together. Since the Catholic Church was supporting the Conservatives Juarez passed laws that nationalized the cemeteries, put birth registrations, and marriages under the civil authority of the government. He also fully separated church from state and assured religious liberties for all citizens. Eventually the Liberals won the war and took back control of the government

a rich and diverse society in which I grew up and partook in work at.

This comparison is between Nicaragua and its neighbor to the south, Costa Rica. Both countries became independent from Spain in 1821. While both are republics, Costa Rica is a democratic republic, and while they share a common border, their health care is worlds apart. The major reason for this may be sanitation. In urban areas, Nicaragua has a sanitation rate of 63.2%, whereas Costa Rica has 94.9%.

     One unusual aspect of Costa Rica is that the country has no army and instead of a national hero being a general it is a young barefoot campesino (farmer). Costa Rica prides on the idea that they have gained through evolution what other countries have

During Christopher Columbus’ last trip to the Americas in 1502, he discovered Costa Rica. It was difficult to settle due to pirates and angry natives, but in 1563 the first permanent settlement was in the city of Cartago. Costa Rica was a Spanish colony for 300 years, until 1821 when it claimed independence. It became an independent country in 1838. They dissolved their armed forces in 1849 and expanded their economy.

reputation of a country. Essential Costa Rica is the country’s brand; it tries to “sell”