Nicaragua

The Republic of Nicaragua (Spanish: República de Nicaragua) is a small country in Central America, bordering Honduras and Costa Rica. It is the least densely populated country in Central America.

Nicaragua, like most Latin American nations, has a history of indirect conflict with the United States, specifically the United States under Ronald Reagan's government. In 1981, after being inaugurated as President, Reagan authorised the training and funding of a rebel force known as the "Contras" (Coming from the Spanish abbreviation for counter-revolutionary, "la contra-revolucion"). Both the Contras and the Nicaraguan Sandinistas were allegedly guilty of human rights abuses, though the Contras were more widely and heavily criticised of this.