Nicaragua

artifact. As I look at it every morning before heading off to school I am instantly reminded of a trip that I now use to define who I am: commitment, compassion, and courage. This was the photo of my trip in Leon, Nicaragua. Over the summer I had the privilege to venture to Nicaragua, a city of intense culture and a site that is unimaginable, through a program called Global Glimpse. However, when I first got my letter of acceptance, I didn’t think this trip could be possible. The…

national political debate… he had more pervasive impact on the country than anyone since Franklin D. Roosevelt” (Reagan 1). So when Reagan began supporting the Contras during the Nicaraguan Civil War it was a major political topic. The civil war in Nicaragua became a personal mission for Reagan. Reagan saw the Contras as freedom fighters that wanted democracy and did anything in his power, legally or illegally, to keep them from losing the fight. Faced with the problem of foreign democratic…

borders of Nicaragua and Honduras, and the public opinion concerning Honduras involvement in the Nicaraguan Revolution. The main sources for this investigation are Inside Nicaragua, Young People’s Dreams and Fears by Rita Golden Gelman, a woman who lived in Nicaragua and tells the story of the revolution from the youth’s point of view and Yankee Sandinistas: Interviews with North Americans Living & Working in the New Nicaragua…

United States and states like Nicaragua. Ultimately, these “modifications” to the Monroe doctrine furthered the economic dependency of central American economies to the U.S. In Nicaragua, for example, bankers from the United States agreed to give the state of Nicaragua one-million-dollar loan in exchange for a whopping forty-nine percent ownership of the country state-owned railroad system. In this example, we can see how central American states, and in this context Nicaragua, during this time…

Nicaragua represents a major component of Latin American history in the 19 century. Although Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and other countries in Central America are developing countries, there are three major events in its history that has shaped its economic conditions of the present. These include: the enactment of liberal policies, the William Walker affair, and production of bananas in Nicaragua. In early Nicaraguan politics, there was a polarization of beliefs between the liberals and…

only aware of what his administration was doing and decided to neglect interfering with the issue. Either way, Reagan is to blame for this scandal due to his knowledge of what his administration was doing and his failure to stop what was going on. Nicaragua was primarily ruled by the communist Sandinistas until a rebel group, the Contras, emerged. The Contras were democratic, like the United States, and were anti-communists. President Reagan, seeing that they were an anticommunist group, wanted…

invariably showed little interest in the many attempts to revive the federation throughout the 19th and most of the 20th century, until their country joined the Central American Common Market in 1962. In 1825 the province of Guanacaste seceded from Nicaragua and joined Costa Rica, creating an issue that was contended until the boundary treaty of…

other times negatively. Nicaragua was one of the countries that affected the Cold war because they were a communist country, and the people of Nicaragua did not know that communism was bad. When the U.S marines came to Nicaragua, the Contra War erupted, and a guerilla war was formed were few of the many events that affected the cold war. Nicaragua affected the Cold War positively because the the Guerrilla War, Contra War, and the U.S marines coming to Nicaragua helped Nicaragua become a non…

A half decade after the conclusion of the National Literacy Crusade, Deborah Brandt composed an analysis on the history of Sandinista education entitled, “Popular Education” in Nicaragua: The First Five Years (1985, edited by Thomas W. Walker). Brandt argued the symbiotic relationship between the militia members of the Sandinista National Liberation Front or the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) and the historically disenfranchised rural peasants through popular education programs…

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Latin America and has had a difficult path to democracy characterized by the ongoing struggles between generations of family dictatorship and civil war. Sean M. Lynn-Jones, an editor for the Belfer Center Studies in Harvard university, defined contemporary democracy as having several common elements. First, democracies are countries in which there are institutional mechanisms that allow the people to choose their leaders. Second, prospective leaders…