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Stories Set in Nicaragua
Nicaragua's war wasn't like its neighbors' civil wars: it was a Cold War proxy fight, with Washington funding the Contra rebels against the leftist Sandinista government through the 1980s. That turned the country into a magnet for journalists, mercenaries and spies, and fiction never really left. Under Fire and Kill the Messenger both report from those years. Open Nicaragua on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 12 books, 14 movies and 2 games set in Nicaragua.
Kill the Messenger
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the…
Under Fire
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Black Ops II is the first game in the Call of Duty franchise to feature future warfare technology and the first to present branching storylines driven by player choice as well as selecting weapons before starting story…
Carla's Song
A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.
La mano de Fátima
La apasionante historia de un joven atrapado entre dos religiones y dos amores, en busca de su libertad y la de su puebloEspaña, segunda mitad del siglo XVI: hace más de medio siglo que ha desaparecido el último reino…
Cannibal
Carlos is a respectable man the most prestigious tailor in Granada Spain. His life is reduced to work and his main hobby is eating; but not just anything.
Walker
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
Water-Mirror of Granada
Experimental cinematic symphony of Granada José Val del Omar's birthplace.
Leo Africanus
"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor…
Stars at Noon
In present-day Nicaragua a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and…
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