Nicaragua+History

Nicaraguan History The Nicaraguans have a troubled history with government, land, and terrorists. They were taken over by the Spanish like Mexico and the rest of Central America in 1529. After much trouble they finally won independence in 1821. For the natives it didn't get much better though. Greedy land owners wouldn't give up land to the poor natives because they felt the natives didn't deserve to have land of their own. The native Rama's are getting sabotage by the Mestizo land owners because of two main reasons, first to make them not want the land, second get government of they're back. The government has gotten some land owners to give land back but some completely deny the government and threatening to kill natives. Natural disasters also hurt the native people. Thousands are killed by volcanoes or earthquakes. To top it, some landowners have gorilla groups (people who are on the landowners side who do not want the natives to get land) They destroy cities and native villages. The government are slowly stopping sabotage and are giving shelter. Lives are becoming better all the time.

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