Throughout the world conflict persists. This is evident in Nicaragua where the country is facing a land disputes, “a territorial dispute is a disagreement over the possession/control of land between two or more territorial entities” which has divided into what can be described as a small civil war of ethnicity with the prize being valuable land along the coast of the country (7,. The two ethnic groups who are responsible for the conflicts are the miskitos of the southern region of Nicaragua, and the mestizos of the northern region of nicaragua. There fighting for land hs spread throughout the Caribbean coast, where most of the indigenous miskito citizens live on and or in close proximity to the area.(6) Both sides of the conflict the mestizos and the miskitos have had casualties since the start of the disputes. …show more content…
But in 2015 the conflict took a bad turn, when a hostages situation involving miskitos as the perpetrators and the mestizos as the victims pushed tension to the breaking point. Activating as further motivation for either side to continue the conflict as it further develop throughout the years before the first casualty. With the current administrative body of nicaragua under president daniel ortega seeming to pick one side over the other instead of trying to stop the conflict. The land dispute between the Miskitos and the Mestizos ethnic group, over the Caribbean coastal lands of Nicaraguan is an ever developing conflict since the 1980s to the present that has forever changed the history of the country as both ethnic group battle for control of the