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Nicaragua



16th century - Gold rich Nicaragua. Christopher Columbus. Amerigo Vespucci Amerrique. Mayan. (1000 things they dont want you to know. Daniel Smith 2015).

1885 – earthquake.

1910-1936 – In 1910 US marines 2,000 Nicaraguans were killed. US troops occupied the cities for the next 20 years. In 1922 Bankers had taken control of Nicaragua. … was pulled out of Nicaragua in Jan 1933. In 1936 Somoza’s Presidency. Introduced banking of Brown Brothers 1909-1912. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1912-1933 – The US occupied Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1913 –  The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Mangua was set up. Wikipedia.

May 1922 – Uprising against the Brown brothers, President of Nicaragua. US bankers ruled, governments backed by US troops. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

31 March 1931 – Earthquake. Wikipedia.

1 April 1931 – Managua earthquake 2,000 people were killed.

1 April 1931 – Earthquake devastation in Managua 2,000 people were killed. (Today in history Chch Star NZ. 1 April 2015).

9 Aug 1963 – Manuel Artime and General Luis Somoza of Nicaragua. CIA memo. Desmond Fitgerald. Cuban exiles. (Ultimate sacrifice. Lamar Waldron (c)2005 US).

Oct 1963 – CIA Felix Rodriguez in Nicaragua. On 9 Oct 1963 discharged from the US army, but not a US citizen. More than 300 people in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Miami Florida.Three main bases. Nicaragua HQ. CIA funds. Cover corporations, a company called Maritima BAM, accounts. Documents and ID cards, drivers licenses. (Ultimate sacrifice. Lamar Waldron (c)2005 US).

Oct to Dec 1963 – A 31 Oct 1963 CIA memo. Luis Somoza of Nicaragua said mobilization of men in Nicaragua would begin for attacks on Cuba to start in early Dec 1963. Carlos Prio former pres of Cuba. (Ultimate sacrifice. Lamar Waldron (c)2005 US).

1968-75 – Cuba’s America department, DA, set up a network for the channelling of weapons and supplies to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.

9 Sept 1971 – Hurricane Edith killed 30 people. (The Telegraph UK. 24 Oct 2015).

1972-1990 - Nicaragua, over four million people ... in 1972. Violeta Chamora. In 1990 Anastasio Somoza in 1978. (Hillary Rodham Clinton. Living history. 2003).

23 Dec 1972 – A 6.2 earthquake in Managua, 12,000 people were killed.

23 Dec 1972 – Wikipedia. BBC. Earthquake.

23 Dec 1972 – A 6.2 earthquake killed 5,000 people. USGS historic world earthquakes.

1974-76 - May 1974 a Sandinista delegation visited the Soviet embassy in Havana Cuba. CPSU. The Kidnap of Turner B Shelton, US ambasssador in Managua, a friend if the Somoza family. 27 Dec 1974 Shelton escaped kidnap. 14 Feb 1975 Fonseca Moscow embassy Havana Cuba. Fonseca went to Nicaragua FLSN. 8 Nov 1976 he was killed in a shootout with National guard. (The Mitrokhin archives. KGB. C Andrew 1999-2000).

1979 – Revolution.

1979 – The Sandinistas in 1979 initiated armed subversion against its neighbours. The result of a Communist central America could be millions of refugees and Communists in the US. In March 1979 Castro decided Nicaragua was ready for a Communist revolution. Internal political opposition to Somoza and the Carter administration’s passivity to three recent Communist takeovers, in Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Granada. In April 1979 the Sandanistas, over the next years Mexico provided $600 million and full active political support to the Sandinista regime. The Sandinista guerrillas expanded from about 500 in early 1979 to about 6,000 six months later. On 23 June 1979 the OAS voted to end diplomatic recognition of the Somoza government and transfer to the exiled coalition of Communist Sandinistas. Sandinistas a terrorist group. (Inside the NSC. CC Menges ©1988).

1979 - Pezzulo. Nicaragua Somoza Sandinistas. American ambasssador in a troubled world interview senior deplomats. D Mak. L Kennedy. London 1992.

1979-87 - 1979 the Sandinistas in Nicaragua were allied to Cuba and the Soviet Union. Contras created in 1980. Sandinistas in El Salvador. 1 Dec 1981 CIA and Contras. CIA covert action. Nicaragua destroyed fuel tank mining the harbour. Oliver North. Iran Jan 1979 anti tank missiles. Profit to a front company called the Enterprise. Nov 1985. 17 Jan 1986. 4 April 1986. memo. Nov 1986. Hawk missilles CIA and oil drugs . CIA Contras 1987. CIA Soviet in Afghan. CIA Pakistan. (The spy. Paul Simpson. 2015).

1979-2004 - Honduras, Nicaragua and Mexican special forces Contras. Western Shoshone Nevada. Native land maps 2004. Mercenaries Iraq. 20 April 2004. Honduras secret wars Nicaragua Iraq 1981 Argentina. 17 July 1979 Cuba. Soviets in Nicaragua. El Salvador. 6 Feb 1981. Death squads and disappearances 1979-83. (Dark spots on the map. Trevor Paglen 2010).

12 July 1979 – In negotiations with the Carter state dept, the Sandinistas sent the OAS a written assurance that they would set up a Democracy in Nicaragua. So the OAS removed Somoza. The Sandanista led govt took over on 19 July 1979. By Sept 1979 the Sandinistas were forging military and political links to the Soviet Union and Cuba. Mexico’s destructive actions in cental America since 1979. (Inside the NSC. CC Menges ©1988).

1982-83 - Black military units. CIA Nicaragua. 14 March 1982 CIA sabotage bridges. 8 Sept 1983 Mangua. Planes ... Cessna 404 crash airport tower Contras. Pilot Agustin M Agusta. Investair leasing corp Virginia. Edgar L Mitchell. Inter montain aviation CIA proprietary company liquidated 1975. Mark L Peterson. Air America exec a pipeline Puerto Sandino exploded CIA. (Blank spots on the map. Trevor Paglen 2010).

1983 – Oliver North was assigned the Nicaraguan armed resistance. The CIA ops directorate had management for the, then legal, US efforts to support the armed resistance in Nicaragua. Oliver North had close relations with that group. (Inside the NSC. ©1988 C Menges).

27 May 1983 – The Government white paper on Central America was published and released. (Inside the NSC. ©1988 C Menges).

8 Sept 1983 - Two lightweight planes. Jeff Gerth. On the trail of a Latin mystery CIA footprint. New York Times. 6 Oct 1983.

1984 - Black units June 1982 special ops. Dale E Duncan. Yellow fruit. Special ops James Longhofer CIA army units private BSI Virginia. Black dollars. 300 million dollars went missing. Black special ops Yellow fruit. Cut out companies, secret bank accounts covert ops. Contras declared war offshore bank accounts for Contras Costa Rice 1984 Nicaragua. (Blank spots on the map. Trevor Paglen 2010).

1984-85 – Iran Contra. Nicaragua Contras and the leftist Sandinistas Daniel Ortega. Saudi Arabia prince Bandar gave $1 million a month to the Contras from mid 1984. In 1985 King Fahd offered to double this. Over time the Saudis gave $32 million to the Contras. AWACs sale. Casper Weinberger on 31 July 1987. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein (c)2011 US).

March 1984 - Secret wars. March 1984 a Soviet oil tanker Nicaragua hit an American land mine explosion injuries 5 crew. Damaged ... mining Nicaraguan port CIA plane Clarridge Special force land mines. Piranha speedboat Act of war mining harbour 1982 CIA Nicaragua Boland Congress, July 1983. Secret war 12 Oct 1984 Orland law. (Blank spot on the map. Trevor Paglen 2010).

8 July 1984 - Lydia Chavez. US and Honduras are still playing game on Nicaragua. New York Times.

1985 – John R Booth. The end and the beginning. The Nicaraguan revolution. 2nd ed. Boulder Colorado Westview press.

1985 - The CIA Nicaragua manual psycho ops in guerrilla war. Essay by Joanne Omang and Aryeh Nurer. New York. Vintage books.

1985-86 – A CIA team called COREA. Monzer al-Kassar in Europe. Oliver North and weapons for the Contras in Nicaragiua. Drug smuggling and Lebanon hostages. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

18 Jan 1985 - G+. 19 Jan 2017. Kaiser Amadeus. This day in history. Joined world court in 1946 US ... of case on 18 Jan 1985. US paramilitary .. the Nicaraguan govt.

End Sept 1985 – At the end of Sept 1985 the administration got $27 million in non military aid for the Nicaraguan armed resistance, from the US Congress. But neither Defence or CIA was allowed to administer this. The State dept set up the Nicaraguan humanitarian assistance office. (Inside the NSC. ©1988 C Menges).

28 July 1986 – Wikipedia. Unsolved deaths. Yvan Leyvraz age 32. A Swiss member of the Scandanavian, killed in a centre ambush with 4 others.

End of 1986 – C-123 transport plane, Miami Southern Air Transport. Shot down in Niacaragua. Pilot William Cooper and co pilot Walllace Buzz Sawyer. Cargo kicker Eugene Hasenfus. Involved in the secret CIA war in Laos in the 1960s. Cooper and Sawyer were killed. (Air America. Christopher Robins (c)1979 UK).

Sept 1986 – James Atwood CIA and an arms dealer. Gerhard Mertins was a German Nazi, weapons to the Nicaraguan Contras as part of the Iran Contra deals. Nicaragua was fighting to overthrow the leftist Sandinistas. Colonel Oliver North. Saudi Prince Bandar. Merex role in Iran Contra. Oliver North's front company called Enterprise got $2.2 million in arms from Monzer al-Kassar an arms dealer. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein. (c)2011 US).

5 Oct 1986 – Nicaraguan pilot Eugene Hasenfus, a former marine, was delivering supplies to the Contras, cocaine and Oliver North. (Reclaiming Parkland JFK ©2013 US).

5 Oct 1986 - Bodies mining C-130 desert rock. 2002 Anabasis project. Tepper planes Swan island CIA North of Honduras. Sinbce layte 1950s radio to Cuba. Aguacate. Covert airstrip unmanned planes, registations, serial crimes. Identities CIA. Special ops. Iran Contra Oliver North. Richard Secord the enterprise. Aguacate CIA 5 Oct 1986 DC-123 Nicaragua Hajenfus. (Blank spots on the map. Trevor Paglen 2010).

5 Oct 1986 - The Enterprise 5 oct 1986 DC-123 shot dollars Nicaragua Eugene Hasenfus survived 3 crew died CIA Laos. DC-123 wreck clues. Crash flight records bases at IIopango El Salavador fled to Agvsacate .. Morocon Honduras Max Gomez. Ramon Medina. CIA alias Felix Rodriguez. Luis Posada Carriles 1961. Posada Gomas Cubnan airlines flight 455 Cuba ... 73 people. Face ID documents. Blank spotds on ythe map. Trevor Paglen 2010).

10 Oct 1986 - Eugene Hasenfus was the only survivor. Pete Ford and Lionel Barber. Man held by Nicaragua says he worked for the CIA. Financial Times.

17 Oct 1986 - At the crash site in Nicaragua. Julia Preston. Clandestine mission. Honduran air fields used by plane supplying Contras. Washinton Post.

1987 – Donald C Hodges. Intelligence emerges of the Nicaraguan revolution. Austin Texas uni press.

1988 - The long held fiction. Holly Sklar. Washington's war on Nicaragua. Boston south end Press.

1988 - Stamps. trade me NZ. $16.00 Helicopters. 28 Oct 2017.

1988-89 – ETA paid its members in Nicaragua who were sent to help the Sandinistas via Larreategui Luadra, a Basque gang, banknotes were hidden between pages of magazines and sent by post. In Nicaragua ETA salaries were $20 a month until 1989 rising to $100, after the payment of the ransom of Emiliano Revilla, a businessman who was kidnapped in 1988, which brought in about $13.5 million.

1990 – Both Yasser Arafat and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua were guests of honor at the 40th anniversary of the east German state. (Stasi files ©2003 A  Glees).

1990 – Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas lost power. (5 Dec 2015 Twitter).

1993 – During Ortega’s earlier regime, Nicaragua issued passports to international terrorists, to ease their movement across borders. Five of these turned up in the hands of one suspect, arrested in 1993 following the first attack on the US World Trade centre. WTC.

31 May 1996 – AID worker abduction. Former Contra guerrillas kidnapped a US employee of the Agency for international development AID. Who was assisting with elections in rural northern Nicaragua. She was released unharmed the next day, after members of the international commission overseeing, intervened.

2003-2009 - Shell company Panama. Nicaraguan pres Arnoldo Aleman. Nicstate and other shell companies $100 million. Alema was jailed for 20 years. Money laundering and corruption in 2003. Aleman's successor was Daniel Ortega. Nicstate company Panama. Byron Jerez Solis. Nicstate and Banco Aliado millions. German banks. (The Panama papers. B F Obermayer 2016).

29 Sept 2004 – al Qaeda terrorist Adnam el Shukrijumah, aged 29, crossed into Honduras illegally from Nicaragua, to meet the Mara Salvatrucha gang leaders in Honduras.

29 Sept 2004 – al Qaeda terrorist Adnan el Shukrijumah crossed into Honduras illegally from Niacaragua to meet with MS-13 gang leaders.

14 Sept 2006 – Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas lost power in 1990. Adam Thomson in Managua.

4 Nov 2006 – Daniel Ortega and his brother Humberto paid official state visits to North Korea. Seeking assistance and formal relations. Also the PM of Iran visited Nicaragua, expressing solidarity from the Ayatollah for the Sandinista Communists.

4 Sept 2007 – Hurricane Felix slammed into Nicaragua's Mosquib coast, killing 101 people. Telegraph UK. 24 Oct 2015.

29 April 2009 - Reagan and Nicaragua. Re inventing Reagan. John Lampert. www.truthout.org

3 March 2012 - BBC UK. Nicaraguan forests, eco soldiers. Tim Rogers. Nicaraguan Mosquito coast, "Operation green gold". 580 troops.

5 March 2012 - Nicaragua targets illegal loggers with an eco battalion. 580 soldiers. Christopher Looft. "Operation green gold". BBC reports.

6 March 2012 - Insight Crime. The Nicaraguan Navy seized 2 tons of cocaine. Christopher Looft. Cocaine from Colombia. The Nicaraguan navy seized 4.7 tons of cocaine in 2011. Down from 2010.

30 Oct 2013 - Insight Crime. Rebels or armed groups in northern Nicaragua. Charles Parkinson. Political motives of armed groups.

10 April 2014 – Wikipedia. Earthquake.

May 2015 – Telica volcano erupted on 24 Sept 2015. In May 2015 it erupted twice. A chain of volcanos extends to lake Nicaragua. (Gary Walton G+ The big wobble).

17 Nov 2015 – Nicaragua closes its borders to Cuban refugees. The Cubans refugees are now stuck in Costa Rica. Hundreds of Cubans are headed for the US. The Morning Ledger.

4 Dec 2015 – Nicaragua's Monotombo volcano erupts for the first time in 110 years. Photos. Twitter. RT.

5 Dec 2015 – Nicaragua's anti US, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega eyes politics again, 14 Sept 2006 article. Daniel Ortego and the Sandinistas lost power in 1990. The 1979 revolution. Twitter. World news report. Adam Thomson in Managua.

15 Feb 2016 - http://news.co.cr/authorities-activate-emergency-plans-after-two-volcanoes-erupt-in-nicaragua/44781/

16 Feb 2016 – A 4.4 earthquake 3km nnw of El Rosario. USGS.

3 April 2016 – A 4.7 earthquake near the coast of Nicaragua. Twitter. My earthquake alerts.

10 June 2016 – Griffin Walker. G+. A 6.1 earthquake. Emsc-csem.org.

10 June 2016 – RT. A 6.1 earthquake in Nicaragua. Strong aftershocks hit Honduras and El Salvador.

31 Oct 2016 - Telesur. Tortilla con sal. Sandinista and psychology war. Small poor country. Daniel Ortega, socialist left.

23 Nov 2016 - Twitter. Earthquake a 4.4 quake near Jiquilillo in Nicaragua.

25 Nov 2016 - Nicaragua south after El Salvandor 7 earthquake off coast.  Hurricane Otto. CNN. Reuters. USGS.

25 Nov 2016 - ODT online NZ. Twitter. Hurricane Otto, quake hit Nicaragua, Costa Rica. Hurricane Otto, Nicaragua and Costa rica. A major earthquake shook a 7.

6 April 2017 - Sputnik. Russian battle tanks to Nicaragua, upseting for the US commander. Military and intel. US southern command boss Admiral Kurt Tidd. In April 2016 Russia sent 20 of 50 tanks, that the Nicaragua government requested. The 50 T-72Bs worth $80 million Nicaraguan defence . Daniel Ortega pres in 2007. In 2016 Russia was constrcting a new embassy complex, anti drug advice and satellites.

10 April 2017 - Fears grow over a mystery Russian compound in Nicaragua. Near a volcano, a satellite station. Managua. Daily Mail UK. NZ Herald. US intel, a spy base, during the cold war. Washington Post. Joshua Partlow. 8 April 2017. A tracking station for GLONASS Russian GPS. Intel news.

3 May 2017 - Insight Crime. David Gafgne. Nicaraguan native leader said loggers are offering weapons for wood. Wikileaks doc.

30 June 2017 - Baseball stadium ... 1,000 year old remains of Spanish ... National Geographic. Bodies in urns artifacts found in 1,000 year old cemetery. More than 30 urns. Human remains. Sarah Gibbons. A massive cemetery. Human bones. Managua. Archeology 800 to 1350 CE. Time of Sapoa period. Spanish in early 16th century. Naya Mexico Inca. Chorotega tribes. From Mexico Mangue language. Chiapas state.

10 April 2017 - Secret Russian military base. Near US border, on the rim of volcano. Jay Greenbru. Top secret military base in Nicaragua 1,790 miles from US ... GPS satellies. Laguna IIe. Nejapa. About 250 Russian troops are based in Nicaragua. Neon Nettle.

6 Oct 2017 - The Watchers. Tropical storm Nate forms near Nicaragua. Heading to the US, Gulf coast.

25 June 2018 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nicaragua-protest-factbox/how-ortega-has-stayed-in-power-in-nicaragua-idUSKBN1JK12I?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com

6 July 2018 - https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/06/understanding-the-conflict-in-nicaragua-the-long-battle-against-us-imperialism/

20 July 2018 - https://www.wsj.com/articles/pack-up-and-get-out-nicaraguan-unrest-shakes-u-s-expat-community-1532084519?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/T36s8HC6fO

25 July 2018 - http://www.arabnews.com/node/1345046/world Nicaraguan violence. US threatens sanctions.













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