Talk:Nicaragua/Archive2

message: This article is heavy with the 1980's.  Nicaragua has had many civil wars and occupations, and even plenty of peaceful history, too.  I believe the pre-80's history section needs to be drastically expanded, and the 1980's information mentioned prominently, but hived off into a separate "Nicaragua in the 1980's" article.  This 80's article could cover the Sandinistas and Contras in the detail it deserves, and leave the Nicaragua country page more balanced.  Comments?  Abe Froman 23:25, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not think encyclopedias need articles about the history of certain countries in certain decades. Articles about the history altogether are sufficient. Get-back-world-respect 00:43, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Traditional encyclopaedias face restrictions (length of the article, editorial line, etc). Happily, Wikipedia is not "traditional" and is able to grow as much as we can feed her. Let the article grow. Should it grow too much, let's split it so that only the highlights of certain stages of Nicaragua's history appear on the main article and further development of a specific subject gets its own article. --Srperez 19:25, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Make it about the 1979-1984 civil war, then.  Then improve the article on the Contras.  But keep the national page clearer.  Mention the Sandinistas and Contras, but let Wikipedians follow the links if they choose.  Visiting this page today, one would think Nicaragua is still on fire.  Abe Froman 00:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ten Dead Chickens is up to deletions without discussion again.  Ugh.  Deal with it tomorrow.  Abe Froman 04:02, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Look more closely, I am adding information that was previously deleted, citing it, and adding tags; no wholsale deletions. Ten Dead Chickens 04:04, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  This article should contain about the influences of the United States. In good(?) or bad meaning, it was very great. The judge of the International Court of Justice for American actions on Nicaragua was the U.S. should stop that actions, but the U.S. neglected (as usual). But we do not need to neclect too. User:Love Ron
I concur with the last statement, and believe that this section requires some discipline when creating edits. Nica is a country that has had a dramatic past that continues to raise heated discussions. There are plenty of facts that can be thrown around, but in keeping with the pillar of NPOV, an expansion of history should be closely monitored. Srice13 04:44, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

text: My bad Srice13 04:44, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coverage of Sandinistas and Civil War in 1980's 

message: Are there any documents that actually prove that Carlos Fonseca was a KGB agent? Cited is a book, but what evidence is the book basing this statement on? Managuense 10:39am 2/14/06
: Carlos Fonseca, Codename GIDROLOG, KGB archival material and documents. 
:Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin. The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, Basic Books, 2005, pg 41
:Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Basic Books, 2000, pg 363 
:Ten Dead Chickens 16:51, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carlos Fonseca 

message: "Nicaragua offered assistance during World War 2"
Assistance to whom? The Germans? (Im pretty sure this is written by a yank though, either youre with us or against us you know) 129.241.11.201 16:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section 

message: This could use a bit more critical elaboration. As it is written it sound as if all is rosy and doing well. In fact, the policies implemented since 1990 have been as damaging to the economy as what was done previously (and there has been no significant war since then!) The neoliberal miracles around the world are not working for most, and it is most painfully evident in Nicaragua and Honduras. The problem extends beyond the Sandinista/Somozista, or communist/capitalist dichotomies, to use it as an explanation is a facile dismissal of the reality being lived by the majority of the population. The problems go back well beyond 1979 and they continue today (don't think I reserve my critique only to the right wing ideologues... but I will elaborate more on this at a later time, for the moment it should suffice to say that the  assumptions of "progress" is what I critique... something ala Escobar). The current policies have been in place for over 15 years and have resulted in a true economic disaster for most Nicaraguans (albeit there have been many causes beyond the control of the planners of the "neoliberal economic miracle," such as the coffee crises in 1996 and 2002/3 and the current rise in the cost of petroleum). A more critical explanation of the economy is needed for this section, something that goes beyond the tourist information guide concept of a happy banana republic. Guillermo 06:41, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economy section 

message: With this many external links, they need to be categorized by toics, type of source, etc...--Esprit15d 20:32, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links