FIMRC has partnered with the Roberto Clemente Rancho Santana clinic to provide medical care to children living in the rural western town of Limón, Nicaragua, which is near the city of Rivas.
José Laureano Pineda Ugarte (Rivas 4 July 1802 – † 17 September 1853) was the 26th and 29th President (then called Supreme Director) of Nicaragua from 5 May to 11 August 1851, as dissident from 4 August, and from 11 November 1851 to 1 April 1853.
While there are disagreements about where the “narrow neck of land” resides, e.g. southern Mexico, Honduras, the Isthmus of Rivas between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Panama, the following list of theories can all be categorized as Central American based.
José Antonio Meléndez Rodríguez (born January 9, 1962, Rivas, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan American guitar player, composer, singer, and songwriter who was born without arms.
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Puerto Rican baseball legend Roberto Clemente and three others died on December 31, 1972, when their airplane crashed after take-off from Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, while attempting to fly to Nicaragua with help for earthquake victims.
The Commercial Bank traced its ancestry through the Cortés Commercial and Banking Company back to Banco de Nicaragua, founded in Managua in 1888.
Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, (Alianza Revolucionaria Democrática), a Contra group of the Southern Front guerrillas in Nicaragua that fought against the Marxist elements of the original Sandinista revolution in 1979
Calero also required an alternate in some states, because he was born in Nicaragua; the original candidate Martin Koppel would also have been ineligible.
While working here he met with General Somoza while the President of Nicaragua Sacasa held discussions with rebel leader Augusto César Sandino.
In the 1970s contacts were made between Carlos Fuente, Sr. and a representative of the blossoming Nicaraguan cigar industry and the company soon moved its production to Estelí in the Northwestern part of that Central American country.
Bárbaro Rivas (4 December 1893 – 12 March 1967), was a Venezuelan naive painter born in Petare.
The Battle of Coyotepe Hill was a significant engagement of the United States occupation of Nicaragua in August through November, 1912 during the insurrection staged by Minster of War General Luis Mena against the government of President Adolfo Díaz.
The Cárcamo de Dolores (Sump of Dolores) is a hydraulic structure located on the Second Section of Chapultepec Park, in Mexico City, comprising the building designed by architect Ricardo Rivas, inside the originally underwater mural Agua, el origen de la vida (Water, source of life) of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, the art installation Cámara Lambdoma by Ariel Guzik, and in outside, the Tlaloc Fountain, also of Rivera.
Carlos Reynaldo Lacayo Lacayo (born 1950 in Diriamba, Nicaragua).
Cubah became so well known for her treatment of the sick that in 1780 when Horatio Nelson, then a captain, fell ill with dysentery during an expedition to Nicaragua, he was taken to her by Admiral Parker, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Naval forces in Jamaica.
Dimensión Costeña is a Nicaraguan group that came together in the Caribbean coast of the country in Bluefields.
Nazario Escoto, Nicaraguan politician and President of Nicaragua
Rivas composed for the popular show Sesame Street for singers as diverse as Celia Cruz, Gloria Estefan and Cyndi Lauper sharing two Emmy award wins with the Music team in 1994 and 1995.
In April 1983 the organization faced a serious internal crisis with the assassination of Mélida Anaya Montes (Commander Ana Maria) in Managua, Nicaragua.
Cases of grisi siknis were registered in Nicaragua in March 2009 in Puerto Cabezas and Siuna where many students of the National Institute of Technology and other schools, suffered attacks.
In August, 2007, Vargas displayed his "Exposición N° 1" in the Códice Gallery in Managua, Nicaragua.
The fight took place in the Dennis Martinez stadium, Managua, Nicaragua and was part of an evening in posthumous tribute to triple world champion Alexis Arguello, El Flaco Explosivo, considered as one of the greatest boxers of all time.
It was begun at Easter 1975 in Morocco, and completed on Christmas Eve of the same year on Big Corn Island off the coast of Nicaragua (Kurtz 1992, 201).
In February 1856, Walker--now head of state--annexed all of the Mosquito Coast, including Kinney's domain, for Nicaragua.
His court was located near Cabo Gracias a Dios near the Nicaragua-Honduras border, and consisted only of a few houses, not much different from those of his subjects.
John Edward Hollenbeck (1829-1885), American businessman in Nicaragua and Los Angeles
One of Coronel′s oldest twin sons, Manuel Coronel Kautz, is currently Nicaragua’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Head Authority of the Nicaragua Great Canal project, currently the largest economical initiative of the country.
La Paz Centro is the home of the Asososca Lagoon Natural Reserve, which is one of the few water reserves in Nicaragua that remains uncontaminated.
His work can be found in the collections of the Museo de Arte in Havana, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Managua, Nicaragua, the Modern Art Museum in Reijkiavik and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.
Lambeth also has twinning arrangements with Bluefields in Nicaragua; Moskvoretsky in Russia (although this is abeyance since changes to the city government of Moscow); Brooklyn, New York in the United States; Shinjuku in Japan; and Spanish Town in Jamaica.
Manuel Alejandro Salazar Rivas (born January 23, 1986 in San Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran footballer.
Rivas managed the wireless communications business of Philips Semiconductor as well as its foundry operations, purchasing, and assembly and test with headquarters in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Soler has interviewed various high-profile figures during her two decade career including Alberto Fujimori of Peru, Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico, Carlos Menem of Argentina, Violeta Chamorro and Arnoldo Alemán of Nicaragua, Abdalá Bucaram and Gustavo Noboa of Ecuador, and Ernesto Samper of Colombia.
There are 236 species of birds, among which one can observe Quetzal, Emerald Toucanet, Pájaro Campana (Procnias tricaruntulata), Chestnut-headed Oropendola (Psarocolius wagleri), and the national bird of Nicaragua, Turquoise-browed Motmot, Guardabarranco (Guardian of the stream).
Oscar Danilo Blandón Reyes (born 1952) headed Nicaragua's agricultural imports under Anastasio Somoza.
Pedro Geoffroy Rivas (September 16, 1908 in Santa Ana, El Salvador – November 10, 1979 in San Salvador, El Salvador) was an anthropologist, poet, and linguist.
Pelliciera rhizophorae, known as the tea mangrove, is a less-common species of mangroves found along the Pacific coast from the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica to the Esmeraldas River in Ecuador as well as within stands located in Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia.
With aid from the New Panama Canal Company's New York attorney, William Nelson Cromwell, he persuaded the government to select Panama as the canal site, as opposed to the popular alternative, Nicaragua.
The Poor man's tropheus, Hypsophrys nematopus is a species of cichlid native to Central America where it can be found in Lake Xiloa, Lake Managua, Lake Masaya and Lake Nicaragua and in riverine habitats on the Atlantic coasts of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Born in Ciudad Darío, Nicaragua, Altamirano first became successful in his native country in the 1970s when he pitched for the Estelí team in the Nicaraguan National League, where he broke many records.
In 1955, Isabel Rivas, a Portuguese aviation fan in the 50's, went to France to take a parachuting course in Biscarrosse, France.
Costa Rican stamps were issued overprinted "Guanacaste" in 1885-89 following war with Nicaragua over the sovereignty of Guanacaste.
Situated in a high mountainous region of Nicaragua lies Quilalí, the remote, large municipal head in the department of Nueva Segovia.
Artime, Quintero and Felix Rodriguez moved to Nicaragua creating an army of 300 men and obtained weapons, supplies and boats to invade Cuba.
Raúl Chibás Rivas (April 25, 1916 – August 25, 2002) was a Cuban politician and military officer who initially supported Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution but later defected to the United States.
Republica United is currently working on receiving donations to help schools in Costa Rica, and they look forward to helping Nicaragua and other parts of Central America.
In November 1888 he was among a group of four officers ordered to Mexico and Central America to make astronomical observations to determine the longitude of Coatzacoalcos and Salina Cruz in Mexico, La Libertad in El Salvador, and San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua; the group then traveled to Washington, D.C., to complete its calculations.
Tan-Sahsa Flight 414 was a scheduled flight from Managua (MGA), Nicaragua to Tegucigalpa (TGU), Honduras.
One year later, on March 23, 2012, Investigation Discovery aired an episode of Werner Herzog's documentary series On Death Row which dealt with Rivas and Garcia.
It premiered in 2001, directed by Jean Randich and conducted by Juan Carlos Rivas.
His largest engagement came when President William Howard Taft ordered the United States Marine Corps to Nicaragua in an attempt to put down a rebellion there, primarily out of the city of Managua.
The filmmakers follow Nayo and Milton (whose surnames are not given), migrants from Chinandega, Nicaragua as they cross through Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States in their attempt to reach Canada.
Penqueo en Nicaragua was written during the revolutionary fight of the Nicaraguan people that put an end to the regime of Anastasio Somoza.