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A new series of coins, featuring a portrait of Augusto César Sandino, was introduced in 1981, consisting of aluminum 5 and 10 centavos, nickel-clad steel 25 centavos and cupro-nickel 50 centavos, 1 and 5 córdobas. Nickel clad steel replaced cupro nickel between 1983 and 1984. In 1987, the final coins of the 1st córdoba were issued, featuring ...
Central Bank of Nicaragua Banco Central de Nicaragua; Headquarters: Managua, Nicaragua: Established: 16 September 1960 (legal) 1 January 1961 (commenced operations) Ownership: 100% state ownership [1] President: Leonardo Ovidio Reyes Ramírez: Central bank of: Nicaragua: Currency: Nicaraguan córdoba NIO Reserves: 2 350 million USD [1] Website ...
3.871 billion (2017 est.) [4] Expenses. 4.15 billion (2017 est.) [4] Foreign reserves. $2.758 billion (31 December 2017 est.) [4] All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars. The economy of Nicaragua is focused primarily on the agricultural sector. Nicaragua itself is the least developed country in Central America, and the second ...
Bolsa de Valores de Nicaragua is supervised by the Superintendencia de Bancos y Otras Instituciones Financieras (Supervision of Banks and Other Financial Institutions). [2] This institution supervises trading activity, market positions, as well as stock brokers, banks, insurance companies and issuers of securities .
The two first commercial banks in Nicaragua opened in 1888. The Bank of Nicaragua (Spanish: Banco de Nicaragua), later rebranded as the Bank of Nicaragua Limited, headquartered in London and then merged with the London Limited Bank of Central America, and the Mercantil Agricultural Bank (Spanish: Banco Agrícola Mercantil) that went bankrupt for non-payment of their debtors.
42,000 (pre-2021) Website. www.laprensa.com.ni. La Prensa is a Nicaraguan newspaper, with offices in the capital Managua. Its current daily circulation is placed at 42,000. Founded in 1926, in 1932 it was bought by Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Zelaya, who had become editor-in-chief. He promoted the Conservative Party of Nicaragua and became a voice ...
Nicaragua. United States. Diplomatic mission. Embassy of Nicaragua, Washington, D.C. Embassy of the United States, Managua. Friendly bilateral relations now exist between Nicaragua and the United States. However, in the 19th and 20th centuries, tensions were high and American intervention was frequent. In the 1980s, due to Red Scare paranoia ...
In 1980, the owner of La Prensa fired the editor Xavier Chamorro Cardenal. Eighty percent of the paper's employees left with Chamorro Cardenal due to La Prensa 's increasingly anti-Sandinista line and founded El Nuevo Diario. [1]: 126. From 2010 to 2019, El Nuevo Diario was one of the two major newspapers in Nicaragua (the other one being La ...