Nicaraguan Law - Crime in Nicaragua, Law Enforcement in Nicaragua, Recipients of Nicaraguan Presidential Pardons, Treaties of Nicaragua (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Crime in Nicaragua, Law enforcement in Nicaragua, Recipients of Nicaraguan presidential pardons, Treaties of Nicaragua, Fourth Geneva Convention, United Nations Charter, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, National Guard, Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Agreement, First Geneva Convention, Third Geneva Convention, Protocol I, Protocol II, Eric Volz, Second Geneva Convention, Protocol III, Treaty of Tlatelolco, Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, Abortion in Nicaragua, Constitution of Nicaragua, Covenant of the League of Nations, Human trafficking in Nicaragua, Central America-4 Border Control Agreement, National Police of Nicaragua, Esquipulas Peace Agreement, Eugene Hasenfus, Bryan-Chamorro Treaty, Central American Defense Council, Treaty of Managua, Canas-Jerez Treaty. Excerpt: In Nicaragua, the National Guard (Spanish: , otherwise known as ) was a militia and a gendarmerie created during the occupation of that country by the United States from 1909 to 1933. It became notorious for human rights abuses and corruption under the regime of the Somoza family. Prior to the U.S. occupation, the long period of civil strife had encouraged the development of a variety of private armies. The freshly elected government of President Carlos Jose Solorzano requested that the U.S. Marines (equally interested in central control) remain in Nicaragua until an indigenous security force could be trained; the Nicaraguan government hired a retired US General to set up the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua. US forces left in 1925, but after a brief resurgence of violence, returned in 1926, taking over command of the National Guard until 1933, when it was returned to Nicaraguan control under the government of Juan Bautista Sacasa. Sacasa, under political pressure from Jose Maria Mon...