Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega proposes vote on US damages [View All]

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Source: BBC

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega has proposed a referendum on whether to demand $17bn (£10bn) from the US for its role in his country's civil war.

Mr Ortega was addressing supporters on the 32nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution.

In 1986, the world court ruled the US violated international law by backing the Contras against Mr Ortega's Sandinista government.

But in 1990 the then Nicaraguan government dropped the claim.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14213628

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Read the judgement at http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?sum=367&code=nus&p1=3&p2=3&case=70&k=66&p3=5