The 1983 visit of Pope John Paul II to Nicaragua The 1983 visit of Pope John Paul II to Nicaragua The reformed-minded Catholics in Nicaragua hoped that the Pope was going to say some words of consolation to the families which daily lose loved ones to the counterrevolution‚ especially since just days before 17 outstanding members of the Sandinista Youth Organization‚ killed in an ambush‚ and had been buried after a memorial
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Nicaragua I. Introduction Nicaragua was governed by a family dictatorship in 1937 under General Somoza for forty-four years. The dictatorship originated in 1937 when Somoza ordered the National Guard to kill the Guerrilla rebels’ leader Augusto Cesar Sandino. The rebels’ objective was constituted by the contempt for the United States intrusion in 1909. The United States sought to dispose of Zelaya (a liberal dictator since 1893) and occupy Nicaragua with military presence. United States habitation
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Culture Myra 29/3/2014 Infrastructure of Nicaragua Infrastructure is the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise necessary for an economy to function. It is one of the most important things for a society to have. Without infrastructure‚ there would be no houses‚ offices‚ or streets. Infrastructure proves the necessary materials for people to survive. It provides shelter‚ work places‚ and streets. Nicaragua is the second poorest country behind
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Iran Contra Affair Assignment Step 1 - Ashley a) Zinn – In order to fund CIA Contra (basically terrorists) operations on Nicaragua (it was illegal for the US to be involved in Nicaragua) Reagan looked for funding from other countries including Saudi Arabia and Iran. Zinn blamed Reagan for lying and makes it out to be a huge scandal. Johnson – That Reagan was completely innocent and had no involvement. Oliver North had sold secret arms to Iran to free US hostages. b) Johnson denies that Reagan
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The Iran-Contra scandal had a big effect on the United States but it had a huge effect on Nicaragua. Through out 1985-86‚ the Reagan administration was selling weapons to Iran illegally in order to encourage Iran to free hostages in the Middle East. Meanwhile‚ the Reagan administration wanted to support the Contras in Nicaragua‚ a rebel group fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government. The administration decided to use the money made from selling arms to Iran‚ and had it sent to the Contras
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9/24/12 Costa Rica: Tradition of Democracy * Longest consolidated democracy in Latin America (important to know). * Costa Rica’s democracy a bit more consolidated than in Panama. * Long tradition of democracy – goes hand in hand with concept of Exceptionalism. * Costa Rican’s feel different with their worldview – this is due as product of their colonial period – Experienced colonization and conquest as rest of Central America experience‚ good reasons. no labor or riches. Sets
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POL 161 09‚ 28‚ 2012 Political Corruption in Central America: Assessment and Explanation Political corruption is indisputably a hindering factor for growth in Central American countries. In some such as Honduras and Nicaragua there is a more distinguishable amount than in others‚ say Panama and Costa Rica. In this analysis‚ Dr. Mark Ruhl goes over two different types of corruption in the political arena in Central American countries. Grand corruption involving senior officials‚ and petty corruption
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I am Mirror: A Historical Critique Claribel Alegrίa in Nicaragua in 1924 and a year later her family was exiled to El Salvador because of her father’s support of Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Augusto César Sandino‚ Alegría ’s family was forced into exile by Anastasio Somoza‚ a Nicaraguan politician who later became commander-in-chief of the Nicaraguan army and eventually the nation ’s president. Her poem I am Mirror was translated in 1978. And is the topic for this critique. In 1978 Alegrίa would
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followed. The National Guard did not react well to these uprisings; many massacres came‚ and this made the general population angry. This gave the Sandinistas an advantage; they were gaining many recruits for their revolution‚ and the business class of Nicaragua supported the idea of ones again calling to a general national strike. Negations to take Somoza out of power were developed by the United States‚ but these efforts where crushed when Costa Rica‚ Venezuela‚ and Panama joined Cuban efforts and
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Caribbean Sea has been defined as an area between 9 and 22 degrees North and 60 and 89 degrees West. With these coordinates the Caribbean would be bounded to the south by the coast of Venezuela‚ Columbia and Panama‚ to the west by Costa Rica‚ Nicaragua‚ Honduras‚ Guatemala Belize and Mexico‚ to the north by Cuba Jamaica and Haiti‚ the Dominican Republic‚ and Puerto Rico and to the east by the Lesser Antilles chain of island. The common link is the Caribbean Sea. THE HISTORICAL CARIBBEAN
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