Background: The Pacific Coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the first half of the 19th century, but gradually ceded control of the region in subsequent decades. Violent opposition to governmental manipulation and corruption spread to all classes by 1978 and resulted in a short-lived civil war that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power in 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. Free elections in 1990, 1996, and again in 2001 saw the Sandinistas defeated. The country has slowly rebuilt its economy during the 1990s, but was hard hit by Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
May 13th 2008Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Managua Big life update for Sarah and Rick!
Sarah has chosen to attend Emory Law School next year. Although her initial intention was to defer law school for a year and stay in Nicaragua, Emory has offere ... [full story]
May 12th 2008Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Managua Bus strikes suck. They really do. Last Monday a bunch of the taxi and bus drivers went on strike protesting the price of gas. I can get anywhere within Managua without problem but to try to get to Cha ... [full story]
May 5th 2008Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Managua Sorry for not posting for so long. We've been very busy with work, activist causes, people visiting, and Sarah visiting law schools.
I wanted to share with you a blog I wrote for work about the ne ... [full story]
May 2nd 2008Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Managua Another older assignment (Cultural Incident #2):
My skin has been feeling particularly brown lately. The last time I felt this brown, it was during Welcome Week at my first frat party at USC. But ... [full story]
May 2nd 2008Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Managua Here's a throw-back assignmen from earlier on this semester (Cultural Incident #1):
I always ask my abuela how she’s doing everyday. But I'll never forget the first time I asked her the stand ... [full story]
April 28th 2008Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Managua Tomorrow is only 3 weeks until I come home, and no offense to anyone but I have no desire to leave. This country and it's people have officially stolen my heart.
I think the animals here need to b ... [full story]
April 5th 2008Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Managua Spring break 2008 and we are off to Nicaragua; leaving our beautiful Atlanta spring behind. So far we have been fortunate to be getting a more normal amount of rain and the plants are rewarding us. A ... 11 photos[full story]
April 4th 2008Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Managua So after getting an e-mail just now from my father telling me very bluntly that I need to update, and since I'm finallyyyyy in a cyber and have time, here goes a hopefully nice, long entry for you all ... [full story]
February 26th 2008Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Managua Whoops. Still doing horribly at updating this thing. Sorry! I've actually barely been home the last two weeks so I never really had the chance to keep you all updated on my oh-so-exciting life. hah. I ... [full story]
February 9th 2008Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Managua » San Juan Del Sur I caught a really really early bus this morning and ended up at San Juan del Sur.
I should really stop going to places that are known as THE most beautiful in the world.
Don´t get me wrong, I spent ... [full story]
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