History of Nicaragua

Submitted by fyl on 12 July, 2004 - 15:31.

Here is your chance to write your own history. What I would like to do is build maybe 10 pages on the history that cover various periods. Have any ideas?

In the mean time, I recommend the Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nicaragua and there is a good interview with Daniel Ortega at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/18/interviews/ortega/

A particularly good analysis of the process that lead to the Nicaraguan constitution and the events that were happening around that time (1987) can be found at http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/nicaragua/1987-spring-WPJ-Nicara... . It is well-researched and well-balanced.

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Interesting

Submitted by tropi on 24 January, 2006 - 11:47.

I just read through this Journal of a family living in Nicaragua and running a farm from 1971 through the 70's and the revolution.

Found it to be an interesting read. with some points of view from the revolution and life in general

http://www.greggmillett.com/Sangarro/Title_Page.htm

Thanks Josh!

Submitted by Nicamatt on 30 January, 2006 - 09:58.

Josh,

Thanks for posting about Mr. Millett's website. I really enjoyed reading about his experiences and I hope he begins to post here. I'd love to hear his perspective nowadays.

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Submitted by tropi on 30 January, 2006 - 11:17.

It would be great to have a bookmark kind of page on this website divided up into categories. Where everyone can add links they have found. or is there something like this here already? I must have about 500 websites bookmarked on different topics of Nicaragua.

Great read

Submitted by fyl on 27 January, 2006 - 09:38.

I really enjoyed reading this. Some of it was very "local" for me. And it filled in some history from a personal point of view. It was also about as unpolitical as possible even though it was in a very political time.

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Submitted by tropi on 27 January, 2006 - 09:53.

I came across the article by accident, I believe I was searching for an article on Land Rovers in Nicaragua. There was a small blip on one of the pages about his New '74 Land Rover.

I also enjoy reading articles 'sin politicos' its hard to find any good articles that are worthwhile to read. Thats why I posted this article. Plus it gives a good sense of what life was and could be like for a foreign family that wants to live off the land here in Nicaragua.

More Nicaraguan History

Submitted by caffeineHi on 1 January, 2006 - 15:29.

I found a 1993 country study done for the US Congress (bias), cleaned up the html and posted it online:

http://nicamap.com/nicaragua-history/

I'm going to use that document to organize the other maps and information I'm finding.

I've also found METAR and TAF weather data as well as weather satellite images. You can see some of the stuff here:

http://nicamap.com/