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Nicaragua
State dinner between US President Richard Nixon and Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle
United States Marines with the captured flag of Augusto César Sandino in 1932
See also: United States occupation of Nicaragua and Iran–Contra affair
In 1912, during the Banana Wars period, the U.S. occupied Nicaragua as a means of protecting American business interests and protecting the rights that Nicaragua granted to the United States to construct a canal there.[47] The intervention, utilizing the U.S. Marine Corps, was sparked by a rebellion that opposed the United States. After quelling the rebellion, the U.S. continued occupying Nicaragua until 1933, when President Herbert Hoover officially ended the occupation.[48]
After the Sandinista Revolution that overthrew pro-American dictator[49] Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaragua fought the Contra guerrillas supported by the United States.
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