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<html> <head> <title>Nicaragua</title> <meta name="keywords" content="Nicaragua"> <style type="text/css"> @import url(http://www.google.com/cse/api/branding.css); </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <h2 align="center">Nicaragua</h2> <div align="center"> <center> <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="2" width="590" border="0"> <tr> <td><p>Tim Merrill, ed. <i>Nicaragua: A Country Study</i>. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1993.</p> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/1.htm">Acknowledgments</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/2.htm"> Preface</a> <p><a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/3.htm"><b>History</b></a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/4.htm">PRECOLONIAL PERIOD</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/5.htm">COLONIAL PERIOD, 1522-1820<br> The Spanish Conquest</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/6.htm">Colonial Rule</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/7.htm">National Independence, 1821-57</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/8.htm">Foreign Intervention, 1850-68</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/9.htm">Conservative and Liberal Regimes, 1858-1909</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/10.htm">United States Intervention, 1909-33</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/11.htm">The Somoza Era, 1936-74</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/12.htm">The Rise of the FSLN</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/13.htm">End of the Anastasio Somoza Debayle Era</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/14.htm">The Sandinista Revolution</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/15.htm">THE SANDINISTA YEARS, 1979-90<br> Consolidation of the Revolution, 1979-80</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/16.htm">Growth of Opposition, 1981-83</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/17.htm">Institutionalization of the Revolution, 1984</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/18.htm">The Regional Peace Effort</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/19.htm">The UNO Electoral Victory</a></p> <p><a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/20.htm"><b>Geography</b><br> </a> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/21.htm">Climate</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/43.htm">Environment</a></p> <p><a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/22.htm"><b>The Society</b></a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/23.htm">POPULATION</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/24.htm">CLASS STRUCTURE</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/25.htm">SOCIAL CONDITIONS</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/26.htm">Education</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/27.htm">Health</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/28.htm">FAMILY</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/29.htm">WOMEN</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/30.htm">RELIGION</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/31.htm">CARIBBEAN SOCIETY</a></p> <p><a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/32.htm"><b>The Economy</b></a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/33.htm">HISTORICAL BACKGROUND</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/34.htm">NATIONALIZATION AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/35.htm">FINANCE</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/36.htm">LABOR</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/37.htm">INDUSTRY</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/42.htm">Mining</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/38.htm">AGRICULTURE<br> Agricultural Policy</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/39.htm">Crops</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/40.htm">Livestock</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/41.htm">Fishing and Forestry</a></p> <p><a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/44.htm"><b>Government</b></a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/45.htm">THE CHAMORRO GOVERNMENT</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/46.htm">THE CONSTITUTION</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/47.htm">POLITICS<br> Conflict Between the Executive and Legislative Branches<br> Dispute over Property Rights</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/48.htm">The National Opposition Union (UNO) Coalition</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/49.htm">Small Non-UNO Parties</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/50.htm">Sandinista National Liberation Front</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/51.htm">The Ex-Contras and Recontras</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/52.htm">Labor Organizations</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/55.htm">Producers' Groups</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/53.htm">The Church</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/54.htm">The Universities</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/56.htm">The Media</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/57.htm">FOREIGN RELATIONS</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/58.htm">Relations with the United States</a><br> <a href="http://countrystudies.us/nicaragua/59.htm">Relations with Central 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