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The money was then diverted, via Colonel Oliver North, aide to the U.S. [National Security Adviser]? [John Poindexter]?, to provide arms for Contra (from Spanish contrarevolucionario, counter-revolutionary) rebel groups fighting to overthrow the revolutionary Sandinista? government of Nicaragua. |
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The money was then diverted, via Colonel Oliver North, aide to the U.S. [National Security Adviser]? [John Poindexter]?, to provide arms for the Contras? (from Spanish contrarevolucionario, counter-revolutionary) terrorist groups fighting to overthrow the revolutionary Sandinista? government of Nicaragua. |
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The U.S. accused the Sandinistas of being backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba, and of supporting in turn left-wing rebels against the U.S.-backed government in El Salvador, scene of a destructive civil war throughout the 1980s. In 1985 the Sandinista movement won an outright majority in popular elections rejected by the Reagan administration as fraudulent, although those elections were validated by independent observers as having been fair and free. |
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The U.S. accused the Sandinistas of being backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba, and of supporting in turn left-wing rebels against the U.S.-backed government in El Salvador, scene of a destructive civil war throughout the 1980s. In 1985 the Sandinista movement won an outright majority in popular elections rejected by the Reagan administration as fraudulent, although that election was validated by other independent observers from Western democracies as having been fair and free. |
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The Contras, led by former members of the National Guard of the overthrown Somoza regime (1936-1979) received weapons and training from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, especially in guerrilla tactics such as destroying infrastructural elements and assassination?. |
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The Contras, led by former members of the National Guard of the overthrown Somoza regime (1936-1979) received weapons and training from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, especially in guerrilla tactics such as destroying infrastructural elements and assassination?. |
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There is also evidence that the CIA may have been involved with drug trafficking to raise money for the contra campaign. The Sandinistas lost power in fresh elections in 1990, following a decade of U.S. economic and military pressure. |
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There is also evidence that the CIA may have been involved with drug trafficking to raise money for the contra campaign. The Sandinistas lost power in fresh elections in 1990, following a decade of U.S. economic and military pressure. |
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