Nicaragua

Nicaragua está en Centroamérica.

Nicaragua The name is derived from two words - Nicarao was the name of the tribe that lived there before the Spanish conquest and the Spanish word agua which means water. This is due to the presence of two large lakes and several lagoons and rivers in Nicaragua.

Managua es la capital.

Sandanistas La Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional ruled Nicaragua from 1979-1990. El presidente de Nicaragua ahora, Daniel Ortega, es de FSLN (2007- present). They are a leftist militaristic political party that opposed U.S. occupation and interference in Nicaragua. The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Spanish: Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) is now a democratic socialist[5][6]political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called Sandinistas [sandiˈnistas] in both English and Spanish. The party is named after Augusto César Sandino, who led the Nicaraguan resistance against the United States occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s.[7] The FSLN overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, ending the Somoza dynasty, and established a revolutionary government in its place.[8][9] Following their seizure of power, the Sandinistas ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as part of a Junta of National Reconstruction. Following the resignation of centrist members from this Junta, the FSLN took exclusive power in March 1981. They instituted a policy of mass literacy, devoted significant resources to health care, and promoted gender equality.[10] A militia, known as theContras was formed in 1981 to overthrow the Sandinista government and was funded and trained by the US Central Intelligence Agency.[11] In 1984 elections were held[12] but were boycotted by some opposition parties. The FSLN won the majority of the votes,[13]and those who opposed the Sandinistas won approximately a third of the seats. The civil war between the Contras and the government continued until 1989. After revising the constitution in 1987 and after years of fighting the Contras the FSLN lost what many consider the first truly democratic election in 1990 to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, but retained a plurality of seats in the legislature. The FSLN remains one of Nicaragua's two leading parties. The FSLN often polls in opposition to the Constitutionalist Liberal Party, or PLC. In the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, former FSLN President Daniel Ortega was re-elected President of Nicaragua with 38.7% of the vote compared to 29% for his leading rival, bringing in the country's second Sandinista government after 16 years of the opposition winning elections. Ortega and the FSLN were re-elected again in the presidential election of November 2011.

Lake Nicaragua The largest freshwater lake in Central America, it houses the freshwater sharks called Nicaraguan sharks. They are bull sharks that had swum upstream chasing food and then stayed in the lake and evolved to live in freshwater.

Béisbol, no fútbol Baseball is the most popular sport in Nicaragua, not soccer

Nicaragua es pobre. 2nd poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, after only Haiti Average per capita annual income of $430 42.5% of Nicaraguans live below the poverty line, surviving on less than $1 per day. 75.8% of the population lives on less than $2 per day. Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordering Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. It faces pervasive unemployment and poverty issues, frequently suffering economic, political and social problems as well as numerous natural disasters. Earthquakes, droughts, hurricanes and mudslides are commonplace, decimating food supplies and entire communities in their wake. According to the United Nations 2009 Human Development Report, an estimated 2.5 million Nicaraguans out of 5.5 million live in extreme poverty.

Dual Volcano Nicaragua is home to the world’s only “dual volcano” island (Ometepe Island). The volcano is in a small mountain range and is fed underground by two separate magma flows.

“Where the Streets Have No Name…” In Nicaragua, while the streets do actually have names, no one uses them. The way to navigate Nicaragua, I quickly learned, is by reference points. When in the capital, most involve the lago, Lake Managua. Two blocks to the lake, then go three blocks south and one down. Lost? I was, constantly. But I had help from my Nicaraguan producer, Dorisell Blanco, who thankfully also did all the driving. Her address: Start from the place where all the journalists live, head south to the entrance, go two blocks down, one to the south, two more down and then almost to the corner to the green wall. http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/08/15/340743743/navigating- nicaragua-a-lesson-in-getting-lost

¡Recuerda Nicaragua! Managua is the capital. The Sandanistas ruled Nicaragua from 1979-1990, and the current president is from this political party. (FSLN) Nicaragua is the 2nd poorest country in the western hemisphere. The world’s only dual volcano is here (Ometepe Island). Baseball is more popular here than soccer.