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military force when pro U.S. leaders were facing rebellion. Unfortunately in 1936 when the U.S. began training the Nicaraguan National Guard, there was a forceful takeover by a man named Somoza Garcia. The era of rule under the leadership and guidance of Garcia lasted for 43 years until a group known as the “FSLN” which stands for the Sandinista National Liberation Front was created which was essentially anti Somoza Garcia. The FSLN was a communist group which wanted to make Nicaragua a socialist

There were many presidents of the United States that were able to construct doctrines during their presidency terms in office that defined their individual foreign policy goals and/or aims. Just to name a few there was the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, Truman Doctrine 1947 and the Reagan Doctrine of 1984. For example, the Monroe Doctrine was constructed for two main reasons: 1) John Adams, Secretary of State, suggested the principle that the Western hemisphere was not an option for any further colonization

the cause of this revolution. The US actually played a very important role in causing the Nicaraguan revolution. The US did three major things that strongly influenced the revolutionaries to revolt against the government. The US helped create the National Guard of Nicaragua, a group that abused citizens and blatantly disregarded for human rights. The US was also complicit in the assassination of Augusto Cesar Sandino, a citizen who fought against US Marine occupation in the 1930’s. Finally, the US

been the campaign manager, I remember the look on my dad’s face the day the Sandinistas became victorious, his ideals and everything he had fought for seemed in vain. The communist regime that had oppressed his childhood was coming back right in front of his eyes. My dad’s party became the opposition. The municipal elections that followed were a complete nightmare. For the first time since 1990, independent observers, foreign and local, were refused accreditation to monitor the election. Mr Ortega

To continue, Donald Hodges’ Intellectual Foundation of The Nicaraguan Revolution, was instrumental in detailing the philosophies of the revolution. Specifically, Hodges focuses on the uniqueness of Augosto Sandino’s ideologies and how he founded them. His work is similar to Coraggio in that they both aim to illustrate the importance the Sandinistas had on social aspects of the revolution. However, Hodges analyzes the philosophic facets of the revolution in hopes to resolve what he calls, “Interpretations

Introduction Natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, seaquakes, and volcanic eruptions are all events that frequent the country of Nicaragua and its neighbors in Central America and the Caribbean. But one of the most devastating natural disasters to affect the country, Hurricane Mitch, has had a lasting effect on Nicaragua. There was an approximate of 3,000 deaths, 1,000 missing persons, 900,000 injured persons. The hurricane caused damage to 50,000 homes, 340 schools, 90 health care

During most of the 20th century, Nicaragua was controlled by a dictatorship. The Somoza family controlled Nicaragua from 1936-1979. The first member of the Somoza family who ruled Nicaragua was Anastasio Somoza Garcia. He spoke fluent English and went to college at Louisiana State University. He fostered strong relations with the United States and because of that received quite a bit of money from the United States. Due to this, the economy of Nicaragua rose greatly and had one of the richest

8. Who was Norwin Meneses? What was his role in the Iran-Contra Scandal? (Be Specific) Norwin Meneses was the primary connection to Colombian cocaine in Nicaragua prior to the 1979 Sandinista takeover. He fled with Blandon and other Somoza sympathizers and became instrumental in the funding of the Contras through CIA sanctioned cocaine sales in America (OIG, 2016). As the Contra counter revolution began to form, he became the adviser to the military commander of the Contra forces. He was known drug

and the people arose. Some of these conflicts were mainly with the National Guard, but in 1978 conflicts hit its climax. In 1978, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, a salient newspaper editor and leader to the Somoza opposition was assassinated; it is believed that by one of Somoza’s business man. This mans death gave a deep feeling of commotion throughout the country, establishing a nation wide strike against the Somoza government. The National Guard responded to the attacks by assassinating many civilians and

BBC, 06 May 2004. Web. 13 May 2014). Since the National Guard didn’t have that many people, they started recruiting farmers who were kicked out because of the new farming system that the Sandinistas started using. The second group was lead by a dissatisfied Sandinistas leader, Eden Pastora. He set up