@equalisource.bsky.socialThe second immigration wave occurred during the early 1980s, when the #Nicaraguan government was reorganized. Many non-Sandinista members of the coalition as well as industrialists whose companies had been seized by the state left the country—some ending up in the United States
@americanourstory.bsky.socialMark Lopez, Olympic silver medalist in Taekwondo, #Nicaraguan #American
@equalisource.bsky.socialThe Somoza regime's long affiliation with the U.S. government meant that some #Nicaraguan exiles already had well-placed U.S. government contacts and friends before they arrived in the United States.
@equalisource.bsky.socialThe true number of #Nicaraguan immigrants can only be estimated, but by 1995 it was probably over 250,000
@equalisource.bsky.socialOver 90 % of #Nicaraguan immigrants self-reported as "white" on the 1970 census.
@equalisource.bsky.socialOver 80 municipal governments created U.S.-#Nicaraguan sister city agreements. The U.S. cities sent medical supplies, food, and farming materials to their counterpart cities in Nicaragua. Some churches created what were called "sanctuaries" for undocumented immigrants.
@americanourstory.bsky.socialEach year, #Nicaraguan Americans send millions of dollars home to their families in Nicaragua. Thirty-six % of Managuan households with relatives abroad received an average of $79 each month, according to a Sandinista government source
@equalisource.bsky.socialBecause so many are undocumented immigrants, and so many work in clandestine jobs for low wages, many poorer #Nicaraguan Americans have no health insurance
@equalisource.bsky.socialBecause the #Nicaraguan American community in San Francisco, for instance, is relatively diffuse, #Nicaraguan Americans there are assimilating into a pan-Latino culture more rapidly than they are assimilating into non-Latino culture.
@americanourstory.bsky.socialThe true number of #Nicaraguan immigrants can only be estimated, but by 1995 it was probably over 250,000
@americanourstory.bsky.socialMiami, the capital of the exile, is the center of #Nicaraguan American life.
@equalisource.bsky.socialEach year, #Nicaraguan Americans send millions of dollars home to their families in Nicaragua. Thirty-six % of Managuan households with relatives abroad received an average of $79 each month, according to a Sandinista government source
@equalisource.bsky.socialCommon among leftist American writers in the 1980s was the stereotype of the happy, friendly #Nicaraguan
@equalisource.bsky.social#Nicaraguan American families tend to be larger than is typical in the United States. The tradition of larger families may have its origin in Nicaragua's agricultural economy, where more children meant more help to plant and harvest
@equalisource.bsky.social#Nicaraguan-educated doctors came to the United States only to find out that without a U.S. medical degree, all those years of study and training were worth almost nothing.
@equalisource.bsky.social#Nicaraguan Americans are overwhelmingly #Roman Catholic, and Nicaragua's Catholicism is very much centered around the Virgin Mary
@equalisource.bsky.social#Nicaraguan Americans typically find work by word of mouth through family or friends who have established themselves in the community, and they tend to work in specific niches that are related to these unofficial word-of-mouth networks
@globalvisibility.bsky.social@americanourstory.bsky.socialEach year, #Nicaraguan Americans send millions of dollars home to their families in Nicaragua. Thirty-six % of Managuan households with relatives abroad received an average of $79 each month, according to a Sandinista government source
@oden-gjallarhornet.bsky.social#Nicaraguan Congress passes Ortega-backed reform excluding opposition from #elections