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Background:
Settled as a colony of Spain in the 1520s,
Nicaragua gained its independence in 1821. Violent opposition
to governmental manipulation and corruption spread to all
classes by 1978 and resulted in a short-lived civil war that
brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power in 1979.
Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US
to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of
the 1980s. Free elections in 1990 and again in 1996 saw the
Sandinistas defeated. The country has slowly rebuilt its
economy during the 1990s, but was hard hit by Hurricane Mitch
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