Reply #33: US invasions of NIcaragua

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US Military Incursions Into Nicaragua
Submitted by caffeineHi on 27 December, 2005 - 03:43.
Nice collection of all US military incursions. Below are the Nicaraguan ones. Source is pretty anti-US govt but the dates look correct.

* Note: Added 1961 mission from http://cuban-exile.com/doc_026-050/doc0045.html

* Note: Added 1984 mission from http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st38.pdf

Original list from http://rwor.org/a/v22/1052-059/1059/invasion.htm

1853 Nicaragua. March 11 through 13. Troops land "to protect American interests during a revolution."

1854 Nicaragua. July 9 through 15. San Juan del Norte (Greytown) is destroyed to avenge an insult to the U.S. Minister to Nicaragua.

1857 Nicaragua. U.S. forces land twice.

1894 Nicaragua. July 6 to August 7. To protect U.S. interests in Bluefield following a change of power.

1896 Nicaragua. May 2-4. To protect U.S. interests in Corinto during political unrest.

1898 Nicaragua. February 7-8. To protect San Juan del Sur.

1899 Nicaragua. To protect U.S. interests at San Juan del Norte, February 22 to March 5, and at Bluefields a few weeks later in connection with internal political disturbances—in this case, a military coup.

1910 Nicaragua. February 22. Troops land at Corinto to get information on the political conditions prevailing in the country following a civil war. And from May 19 to September 4 to protect U.S. interests at Bluefields.

1912-25 Nicaragua. Landing of 2,700 Marines to protect U.S. interests during "an attempted revolution." U.S. troops stay for 13 years as a tripwire—or in the words of the U.S. government, "as a promoter of peace and government stability." Less than two years after the troops left, they returned.

1926-1933 Nicaragua. An upheaval of revolutionary activity leads to the landing of 5,000 Marines "to protect the interests of the United States." The National Guard of the Somoza family is established to rule into the future. U.S. forces engage in major operations against the revolutionary Sandino in 1928. After their withdrawal, Sandino is deceived and finally assassinated by the U.S.-trained Somoza forces in 1934. The consolidated military dictatorship rules for 45 years.

1961 Nicaragua. In March/April the CIA moves a training camp from Trax, Guatemala to Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. The mission to invade Bahia de Cochinos in Cuba was later aborted.

1979 Nicaragua. Following the overthrow of Somoza, regroupment starts of what is to become a U.S.-led and trained army of counterrevolutionaries (Contras) based in neighboring Honduras and Costa Rica.

1984 Nicaragua. On the night of February 29, emplaced four magnetic mines in the harbor at Corinto, Nicaragua. This anti-Sandanista measure was aimed at "applying stringent economic pressure.".

1987 Nicaragua. May. The U.S. military conducts a massive "training exercise" near Nicaragua. Code-named Solid Shield, the exercise involves 50,000 troops.