How does Nicaragua compare? In April the sanctioned ... The two countries are old Cold War allies. During the Nicaraguan civil war, the USSR and Cuba supplied resources to the Sandinista National ...

Nicaragua had an extreme concentration of wealth ... We did not want a single party or to align with one of the blocs in the Cold War. Unfortunately the war forced us toward the socialist bloc ...

As the Cold War settled into détente in the ... Reagan tightened the U.S. economic embargo, funded the Contras to wage war against the Nicaragua's Sandinistas, invaded Grenada in 1983, and ...

On April 2, Maxim Fomin, better known as Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed in a blast that rocked a cafe in downtown St. Petersburg HAVANA, April 5. /TASS/. Nicaragua condemned on Tuesday the act of ...