Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s name is taken from a chief of the country’s Indian tribe which was at the time of the Spanish Conquest. It was settled by the Spanish in 1522. In 1838, the country finally gained their independence. From then on, the politics in Nicaragua was getting dominated for competition of power between the Liberals, who lived in the town of Leon and the Conservatives, who lived in Granada. The U.S supported the Conservatives government, so they sent a small group of Marines over to Nicaragua. The Marines stayed there from 1912 to 1925.
From there, the U.S. was able to have a canal route through Nicaragua and the naval bases because of the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty of 1916. But it was terminated in 1970. After the election of 1924, the Marines were sent in again, to stop the disorder going on in the country. General Cesar Augusto Sandino fought the Marines guerilla warfare style until their withdrawal in 1933. Their government is republic.
Nicaragua is populated sparsely of the Central American nations. It borders Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. It’s only slightly bigger than New York State. Nicaragua is very mountainous with very fertile valleys. The lakes of Nicaragua and Managua are connected by the river Tipitapa.
The president of Nicaragua as of 2007 was Daniel Ortega. Their monetary unit is the gold Cordoba. The languages they have are Spanish, which 98 percent people use as it is their official language, and the rest are English and other languages. The religions are Roman Catholic, Evangelical, and Moravian. They also have a small percent of people that don’t have a religion.
Nicaragua is a fertile land and the agriculture they have are coffee, bananas, sugarcane, cotton, rice, corn, tobacco, sesame, Soya, beans, beef, veal, pork, poultry, dairy products, shrimp and lobsters. Most of the industries Nicaragua has is food processing, chemicals, machinery and metal products, textiles, clothing, petroleum refining and its distribution, beverages, footwear and wood. The natural resources Nicaragua has is gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, tungsten, timber and fish. They mostly trade with the United States, El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela, China, and Guatemala, and all as of 2006.
In 1911 and 1912, the U.S started intervening in Nicaragua. The U.S wanted to ensure the rule of government which was friendly to the United States political and commercial interests and stability. The Nicaraguans were alarmed at what they thought was happening; they thought they were experiencing foreign takeover of their political, banking and railroad systems. Also, there was something going on with the Nicaraguan president, Jose Zelaya. He was embarking on a campaign of internal improvement and courting foreign investment, from the United States to other nations.
Zelaya was speaking with the Japanese for a constructing a transoceanic canal. And Nicaragua started getting involved with El Salvador and Costa Rica and that’s how Zelaya was going to get ousted by the Secretary of the State, Philander Knox. Knox wanted to keep neutral and he intervened between two U.S officers. They were serving as officers in the rebel army, but they were also captured and killed by Zelaya. Several Marines went in and captured Managua, Nicaragua’s capital.
The Marines captured Managua along with Juan Estrada’s forces and Knox recognized the new government. But he wanted prosecution on the killers of the twoofficers, along with an election within the next six months and a commission for claims against damage to property. Estrada was president, but if they had the election, Zelaya’s Liberals would win. After that was decided, Nicaragua agreed to a U.S loan, a new constitution, abolishment of monopolies and going with the demands of the United States that they placed in exchange for recognition. Estrada was replaced by his vice president, Adolfo Diaz.
On June 6, 1911, Nicaraguan and U.S representatives signed a treaty that included the U.S government and private bank approval. But then, the 1911 treaty was not ratified by the Senate because many Senators disapproved the Taft Administration’s connection with large businesses. In July of 1912, the minister of war and Diaz’s rival, Luis Mena, started a revolt to seize the power. He already won the election of presidency of 1913, but he wasn’t sure about securing U.S banking. Diaz then asked the U.S to intervene to protect the property of U.S citizens.
Because of that, Diaz still had his power and Mena left the country. And because the U.S was concerned, they sent a small troop of 100 Marines to stay at Nicaragua until 1925. The U.S needed to watch their actions, because, in their attempts to remove a dictator and prevent local mismanagement, it their actions caused nationalist concern in Nicaragua.
Just today, there has been U.S intervention in Nicaragua, as of 2000 and so on. In 2000, U.S troops provided medical attention, built two clinics and schools, improved roads and dug wells. They were there only to carry out a range of socially useful projects. In 2001, a peace treaty between the U.S and Nicaragua on drug trafficking was made into effect and that’s the first time the U.S military supported the Nicaraguan military. In 2006, there was something to fear from seeing the streets of Nicaragua.
Nicaragua was poor and tiny, what did they have to fear? But, thing is, Nicaragua is being targeted by the United States for not embracing free market, capitalism un-tethered. Nicaragua’s policy with the U.S is not brushed off lightly.
Sources:
http://www.smplanet.com/teaching/imperialism/-U.S.InterventioninLatinAmerica
www.inforplease.com/country/Nicaragua.html
www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2012/04.140740.htm
http://www.soaw.org/component/content/article/209-nicaragua/325-background-on-us-military-involvement-in-nicaragua
Enclosed is a word search on Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s name is taken from a chief of the country’s Indian tribe which was at the time of the Spanish Conquest. It was settled by the Spanish in 1522. In 1838, the country finally gained their independence. From then on, the politics in Nicaragua was getting dominated for competition of power between the Liberals, who lived in the town of Leon and the Conservatives, who lived in Granada. The U.S supported the Conservatives government, so they sent a small group of Marines over to Nicaragua. The Marines stayed there from 1912 to 1925.
From there, the U.S. was able to have a canal route through Nicaragua and the naval bases because of the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty of 1916. But it was terminated in 1970. After the election of 1924, the Marines were sent in again, to stop the disorder going on in the country. General Cesar Augusto Sandino fought the Marines guerilla warfare style until their withdrawal in 1933. Their government is republic.
Nicaragua is populated sparsely of the Central American nations. It borders Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. It’s only slightly bigger than New York State. Nicaragua is very mountainous with very fertile valleys. The lakes of Nicaragua and Managua are connected by the river Tipitapa.
The president of Nicaragua as of 2007 was Daniel Ortega. Their monetary unit is the gold Cordoba. The languages they have are Spanish, which 98 percent people use as it is their official language, and the rest are English and other languages. The religions are Roman Catholic, Evangelical, and Moravian. They also have a small percent of people that don’t have a religion.
Nicaragua is a fertile land and the agriculture they have are coffee, bananas, sugarcane, cotton, rice, corn, tobacco, sesame, Soya, beans, beef, veal, pork, poultry, dairy products, shrimp and lobsters. Most of the industries Nicaragua has is food processing, chemicals, machinery and metal products, textiles, clothing, petroleum refining and its distribution, beverages, footwear and wood. The natural resources Nicaragua has is gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, tungsten, timber and fish. They mostly trade with the United States, El Salvador, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela, China, and Guatemala, and all as of 2006.
In 1911 and 1912, the U.S started intervening in Nicaragua. The U.S wanted to ensure the rule of government which was friendly to the United States political and commercial interests and stability. The Nicaraguans were alarmed at what they thought was happening; they thought they were experiencing foreign takeover of their political, banking and railroad systems. Also, there was something going on with the Nicaraguan president, Jose Zelaya. He was embarking on a campaign of internal improvement and courting foreign investment, from the United States to other nations.
Zelaya was speaking with the Japanese for a constructing a transoceanic canal. And Nicaragua started getting involved with El Salvador and Costa Rica and that’s how Zelaya was going to get ousted by the Secretary of the State, Philander Knox. Knox wanted to keep neutral and he intervened between two U.S officers. They were serving as officers in the rebel army, but they were also captured and killed by Zelaya. Several Marines went in and captured Managua, Nicaragua’s capital.
The Marines captured Managua along with Juan Estrada’s forces and Knox recognized the new government. But he wanted prosecution on the killers of the twoofficers, along with an election within the next six months and a commission for claims against damage to property. Estrada was president, but if they had the election, Zelaya’s Liberals would win. After that was decided, Nicaragua agreed to a U.S loan, a new constitution, abolishment of monopolies and going with the demands of the United States that they placed in exchange for recognition. Estrada was replaced by his vice president, Adolfo Diaz.
On June 6, 1911, Nicaraguan and U.S representatives signed a treaty that included the U.S government and private bank approval. But then, the 1911 treaty was not ratified by the Senate because many Senators disapproved the Taft Administration’s connection with large businesses. In July of 1912, the minister of war and Diaz’s rival, Luis Mena, started a revolt to seize the power. He already won the election of presidency of 1913, but he wasn’t sure about securing U.S banking. Diaz then asked the U.S to intervene to protect the property of U.S citizens.
Because of that, Diaz still had his power and Mena left the country. And because the U.S was concerned, they sent a small troop of 100 Marines to stay at Nicaragua until 1925. The U.S needed to watch their actions, because, in their attempts to remove a dictator and prevent local mismanagement, it their actions caused nationalist concern in Nicaragua.
Just today, there has been U.S intervention in Nicaragua, as of 2000 and so on. In 2000, U.S troops provided medical attention, built two clinics and schools, improved roads and dug wells. They were there only to carry out a range of socially useful projects. In 2001, a peace treaty between the U.S and Nicaragua on drug trafficking was made into effect and that’s the first time the U.S military supported the Nicaraguan military. In 2006, there was something to fear from seeing the streets of Nicaragua.
Nicaragua was poor and tiny, what did they have to fear? But, thing is, Nicaragua is being targeted by the United States for not embracing free market, capitalism un-tethered. Nicaragua’s policy with the U.S is not brushed off lightly.
Sources:
http://www.smplanet.com/teaching/imperialism/-U.S.InterventioninLatinAmerica
www.inforplease.com/country/Nicaragua.html
www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2012/04.140740.htm
http://www.soaw.org/component/content/article/209-nicaragua/325-background-on-us-military-involvement-in-nicaragua
Enclosed is a word search on Nicaragua
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