Miskito Indians of

Most the Sandinistas by a segment of the Miskito people; the govern Mestizos in the eastern area are small farmers and ranchers or ment’s decision to relocate Miskito villages from the Honduran miners who do not function as a community in the manner of the border; and the eventual commitment of the government to other indigenous ethnic groups of the region. [...] the Moravian culture, and the Moravians came to be the mediators The Mosquitia became the frontier of the geographic separation between the Miskitos and the outside world, continuing this role created by the competition for empire between the British and the even today, as the most important ideological influence on the Spanish. [...] The which took charge of representing the Coast after the triumph of the Sandinistas immediately provided life pensions to all widows of miners and revolution and the close ties it developed with the rightist began to improve the conditions in the mines. [...] based on democracy, pluralism, anti-imperialism and the elimination of social exploitation and oppression in all forms, demands the institutional Regarding the process that took place between the publication of ization of the process of autonomy for the communities of the Atlantic the principles in mid-1985 and the legislation on autonomy Coast of Nicaragua, therefore recognizes the political, ec. [...] On the other hand, the five-year residency ‘Communal property, including the lands, waters and forests that have requirement for the non-native born seems potentially problematic, belonged traditionally to the communities of the Atlantic Coast [fall under given the colonization from western Nicaragua that has taken place the control of the autonomous governments] and are subject to the in the past.