Nicaraguan Americans
Overview
Bordered on the north by Honduras, on the south by Costa Rica, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean, Nicaragua is Central America'...
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Nicaragua
Republic of NicaraguaRepública de Nicaragua
CAPITAL: Managua
FLAG: The national flag consists of a white horizontal stripe between two stripes of cobalt blue, with the national coat o...
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Nicaragua - Enrique Bolaños Geyers
Enrique Bolaños GeyersPresident
(pronounced "en-REE-kay bo-LAH-nyos GUY-ers")
"No one will be above the law in my government....
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua is located in the geographic heart of Central America and is the region's largest country at 128,410 square kilometers (49,579 square miles), which makes it slightly larger ...
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Nicaragua
POPULATION 5,023,818ROMAN CATHOLIC 75.9 percentPROTESTANT 18.7 percentJEHOVAH'S WITNESS 1.4 percentOTHER 4.0 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
Nicaragua, with an area of 50,4...
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Area: 130,373 sq km (50,337 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 5,233,000Capital:
Managua
Head of state and government:
President
Enrique Bolaños
Geyer
The presidential and legislative elections...
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Taipei (dpa) - Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has arrived in
Nicaragua on the final leg of his Central American trip aimed at
safeguarding ties with Taipei's diplomatic all...
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The U.N.'s highest court Monday granted Honduras sovereignty over four Caribbean islands in its decades-old dispute with Nicaragua, and carved up rich fishing grounds and offshore exploration conce...
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Managua (dpa) - A delegation of Taiwanese government and business
officials were in Nicaragua for a business mission on Thursday as
part of a trade offensive by the island a...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday inaugurated a 150,000-barrel-a-day refinery the nation is building in Nicaragua as part of the leftist leader's oil-funded battle against U.S. influence i...
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Managua (dpa) - Hurricane Felix pounded north-eastern
Nicaragua on Tuesday, though the eye of the storm struck an only
sparsely populated area of the Caribbean coast.
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Nicaraguan revolutionary Daniel Ortega's first day as president was spent signing a socialist trade pact with allies Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba, and planning a meeting with Iran's hard-line presid...
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A former president convicted of money laundering and embezzlement was freed from the conditions of his parole and allowed to travel around the country, a move critics said Saturday was a ploy by Pr...
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