touché

three countries in less than a week

Posted by touché | 15th November 2009

I headed to Nicaragua with the school program on October 22. Before we went we learned alot of Nicaragua's history, I'll give a brief overview:
[i]Settled in 1524, independent in 1821. Since the independence they had a group of liberals from Leon and Conservatives in Granada that feuded this led to civil war in 1840s and 50s. Where William Walker(from southern US) was invited to help the liberals in 1855 and then made himself president in 1856, which US President Pierce recognized as a legitimate governmate of Nicaragua. However, Walker ws very disliked and this led to a national campaign that drove him out in 1857. US occupied Nicaragua from 1912-1933 and supported the conservates in the continuing feud. The support was mainly because US didnt like the liberal president, Zelaya cause he restriced Nicaragua's natural resources and US wanted control of a proposed canal in Nicaragua. Thus in 1914 there was Bryan-Chamorro treaty signed that would allow the US control of the proposed cana

Continued | Last School Semester

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