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unusual facts about Nicaraguan


Afro-Nicaraguan

Thus emerged middle classes formed by Zambo, mulatto and Quadroon - those with a quarter black blood - and other mixtures, so that in 1820 they made up 84 percent of the population.


Aphanotriccus

Tawny-chested breeds from eastern Nicaragua to northeastern Costa Rica, although all Nicaraguan records are historical specimens collected near Lake Nicaragua or its outflow.

Armando Collado

In January 2011, the Nicaraguan FA (FENIFUT) suspended Collado from playing football pending an investigation relating him to Wilson Raj Perumal and he was subsequently accused of trying to fix matches in the CONCACAF Champions League in the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons.

Battle of Coyotepe Hill

On October 2–4, 1912, a Nicaraguan rebel force led by General Benjamín Zeledón occupying Coyotepe and another hill overlooking the strategic rail line, Barranca refused to surrender to government troops under President Adolfo Díaz.

Carlos Buitrago

Carlos Buitrago (born December 16, 1991) in Managua, Nicaragua is a Nicaraguan professional boxer in the Minimumweight division.

Carlos Lehder

Other major Medellín cartel associates fled to the protection of Manuel Noriega in Panama, but when Pablo Escobar discovered Noriega was plotting to betray him to the U.S. in return for amnesty, the cartel associates then fled to Nicaragua to seek the assistance of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega.

Charles F. B. Price

For his outstanding work he received praise from President Calvin Coolidge, the Secretary of State and from the Nicaraguan Government.

Citizens for America

Citizens for America staged an unprecedented meeting of anti-Communist rebel leaders called the "Democratic International", including Nicaraguan, Laotian, Angolan and Afghan (Mujahideen) rebels in June 1985 in Jamba, Angola.

Dance in Nicaragua

Both the festival and dance are an Afro-Nicaraguan tradition which originated in Bluefields, Nicaragua in the 17th century.

Donald Barrios

Donald Barrios is a wealthy American businessman, in addition to being the connection between the former United States' Drug Enforcement Administration field agent Oscar Danilo Blandon Reyes and Juan Norwin Meneses Cantarero, a prominent Nicaraguan drug lord.

Emilio Alvarez

Emilio Álvarez Montalván (born 1919), Nicaraguan doctor and political writer

Emilio Álvarez Lejarza (1884–1969), Nicaraguan jurist and political writer

Eric Justin Toth

Captured by the Nicaraguan police on April 2013 in Estelí, a northern city of Nicaragua.

Escoto

Nazario Escoto, Nicaraguan politician and President of Nicaragua

Eugenio Batres Garcia

Victor Eugenio Batres Garcia (born May 21, 1941 in Chinandega, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan journalist, political commentator, newscaster and writer.

Fernando Chamorro

Fernando "El Negro" Chamorro, Nicaraguan rebel fighting both the Somoza and Sandinista regimes

Fourth ballot box

Nicaraguan fourth ballot box, a political initiative by Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega

Gaspar García Laviana

Through his missionary work with Father Pedro Regalado in the parishes of San Juan del Sur and Tola in the department of Rivas, García Laviana worked closely with the Nicaraguan peasants and was intimately aware of the many hardships they faced.

Gene Stone

His first ghostwritten project was for the Nicaraguan politician Arturo Cruz, Jr., Memoirs of a Counter-Revolutionary (1988).

George Augustus Frederic II

Perhaps the most notable of these initiatives was the expansion of the kingdom's center to the south, first to Bluefields and then to San Juan del Norte, where he cooperated, with the support of British naval forces, with the expulsion of the Nicaraguan garrison and the annexation of the town to the Miskito Kingdom in 1848.

Gérard de Cortanze

He translated works of Spanish writers, such as the Mexican Jose Emilio Pacheco, the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, Argentine exile in France Juan José Saer, the notebooks of the Spanish painter Antonio Saura (1930–1998), and poems, like those of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938) and the Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948).

INAC

Nicaraguan Civil Aeronautics Institute (Instituto Nicaragüense de Aeronáutica Civil), the Nicaraguan civil aviation agency

José Alfaro

José Alfaro is a Nicaraguan boxer with a record of 26-8-0-1 (22 KO) who captured the vacant WBA lightweight title against Thai Prawet Singwancha in a split decision on December 29, 2007 in Bielefeld, Germany.

Kisan

KISAN, Kus Indian Sut Asla Nicaragua ra (Nicaraguan Coast Indian Unity)

Latin American literature

In the late 19th century, modernismo emerged, a poetic movement whose founding text was the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío's Azul (1888).

Left-wing terrorism

In Latin America, groups that became actively involved in terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s included the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, the Peruvian Shining Path, and the Colombian 19th of April Movement.

León, Nicaragua

Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan president (1st term: 1967–1972, 2nd term: 1974–1979); overthrown by the Sandinistas.

Livio Bendaña Espinoza

Livio Bendaña Espinoza (born on September 22, 1935 in Diriamba, Nicaragua) is a former Nicaraguan footballer and coach.

Livio José Bendaña

Bendaña is son of legendary Nicaraguan footballer of the 1950s, Livio Bendaña Espinoza.

Lorenzo Guerrero

Lorenzo Guerrero Gutiérrez (13 Nov. 1900 in Granada – 15 April 1981) was a Nicaraguan politician and a close associate of Somoza family.

Lya Barrioz

In 2006 Barrioz was invited by the Nicaraguan boxing champion, Ricardo Mayorga, to sing the Nicaraguan National Anthem, Salve a ti, Nicaragua, in the boxing ring before his fight with Oscar de la Hoya.

Misa Campesina Nicaragüense

The Misa Campesina Nicaragüense ("Nicaraguan Peasants' Mass") is Spanish-language Mass with words and music by Carlos Mejía Godoy, incorporating a liberation theology and Nicaraguan folk music.

Mission muralismo

Roberto Vargas, a famed literary figure in the Nicaraguan community, critically stated, “we came in the human wave fleeing the brutality of the Somoza regime”—the human wave being the vast migration of Nicaraguan refugees.

Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves

The Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves community includes a diverse number of mangrove species red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), black mangrove (Avicennia germinans), white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus), and another species of red mangrove (Rhizophora harrisonii) as well as the occasional rare occurrences of piñuelo mangrove (Pelliciera rhizophorae).

Movimiento Todos por la Patria

By the time the group was founded, Merlo had been active in guerrilla activities for years; he fought with the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) in the 1970s and later went on to collaborate with the Sandinistas to assassinate former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1980, who was living in exile in Paraguay.

Nicaraguan general election, 2011

The head of accompanying mission of the European Union (EU), Luis Yáñez called the triumph of Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista Front in the Nicaraguan General Elections indubitable and ruled out any possibility of fraud during them.

Nicaraguan literature

The Vanguardia was a literary movement that started in Granada, Nicaragua between 1927 and 1929, the movement was led by the Nicaraguan poet José Coronel Urtecho.

Operation Charly

In 1977 at a meeting of the Conference of American Armies (CAA) held in the Nicaraguan capital city of Managua, junta members Gen. Roberto Viola and Admiral Emilio Massera secretly pledged unconditional support of Somoza regime in its fight against left-wing subversion and agreed to send advisors and material support to Nicaragua to assist President Somoza's National Guard.

Puca

Central American Unionist Party (Partido Unionista Centroamericano), center-right Nicaraguan political party.

Rama people

The Rama have struggled against the Nicaraguan government and mestizo landowners for rights to their ancestral lands and have joined forces with the other Nicaraguan indigenous groups the Miskito and the Sumo peoples.

Rene Enriquez

René Enríquez, Nicaraguan-born American television actor of the 1970s and 1980s

Róger Mejía

Róger Daniel Mejía Cortez (born April 30, 1986) is a Nicaraguan footballer who currently plays for Diriangén in the Primera División de Nicaragua.

Scharllette Allen Moses

Scharllette Alexandra Allen Moses (born September 18, 1991) is a Nicaraguan beauty pageant titleholder from Bluefields who became the first black woman to win the title of Miss Nicaragua and represent her country in the 2010 Miss Universe pageant.

Second Battle of Rivas

The commercial exploitation of this route had been attained from a previous Nicaraguan administration to Wall Street tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company.

Sumo people

The evidence provided by an analysis of the Misumalpan language family, to which the Mayangna languages belong and which also includes Miskitu and the extinct Matagalpan and Cacaopera tongues once spoken in the Nicaraguan highlands and southern El Salvador, indicates the continuous presence of these groups in the region from around 2000BC.

TACA Flight 390

The deceased passengers were later confirmed as Jeanne Chantal Neele, wife of Brian Michael Fraser Neele (Brazil's ambassador to Honduras), and Nicaraguan businessman Harry Brautigam, president of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration; Brautigam died from a heart attack.

Tawny-chested Flycatcher

It breeds in Caribbean lowlands and foothills up to 1000 m altitude from eastern Nicaragua to northern Costa Rica, although all Nicaraguan records are historical specimens collected near Lake Nicaragua or its outflow.

Telecommunications in Nicaragua

In June 2012 the Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH) claimed that the Nicaraguan National Police (NNP) forcibly closed Somoto-based Television Channel 13 due to the station’s reporting on government corruption.

Tony Chévez

Silvio Antonio Aguilera Chévez (born June 20, 1954, in Telica, Nicaragua) is a former Nicaraguan professional baseball player.

Yolanda Blanco

Penqueo en Nicaragua was written during the revolutionary fight of the Nicaraguan people that put an end to the regime of Anastasio Somoza.


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