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| − | '''Nicaragua''' is the largest nation in [[Central America]], but | + | '''Nicaragua''' is the largest nation in [[Central America]], but it the least densely populated; thus being similar in population to its neighbours. The country is bordered to the north by the Honduras and to the south by [[Costa Rica]]. Its western coast is on the Pacific Ocean, while the east of the country borders on the Caribbean Sea. Nicaragua is one of three countries in the world where abortion is illegal with no exceptions, along with [[El Salvador]] and [[Chile]]. |
| − | Nicaragua was recently ravaged by a civil war, which killed thousands, and left 20% of the country's population homeless <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1225218.stm</ref>, between the Contra guerillas and the socialist | + | Nicaragua was recently ravaged by a civil war, which killed hundreds of thousands of people, and left 20% of the country's population homeless <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1225218.stm</ref>, between the Contra guerillas and the socialist [[Sandinista]] government. |
| − | The | + | The Reagan Administration funded the Contra guerillas in defiance of the [[Boland amendment]], in what came to be known as the [[Iran-Contra affair]]. <ref>"President Ronald Reagan told a packed White House news conference that funds derived from covert arms deals with the Islamic Republic of Iran had been diverted to buy weapons for the U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua." http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB210/index.htm</ref> |
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Revision as of 01:59, April 20, 2007
Nicaragua is the largest nation in Central America, but it the least densely populated; thus being similar in population to its neighbours. The country is bordered to the north by the Honduras and to the south by Costa Rica. Its western coast is on the Pacific Ocean, while the east of the country borders on the Caribbean Sea. Nicaragua is one of three countries in the world where abortion is illegal with no exceptions, along with El Salvador and Chile.
Nicaragua was recently ravaged by a civil war, which killed hundreds of thousands of people, and left 20% of the country's population homeless [1], between the Contra guerillas and the socialist Sandinista government.
The Reagan Administration funded the Contra guerillas in defiance of the Boland amendment, in what came to be known as the Iran-Contra affair. [2]
See also
References
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1225218.stm
- ↑ "President Ronald Reagan told a packed White House news conference that funds derived from covert arms deals with the Islamic Republic of Iran had been diverted to buy weapons for the U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua." http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB210/index.htm