In 1982, the Boland Amendment was passed to end U.S. aid to the Contras; yet the Reagan administration continued to illegally fund the Contras, which resulted in a scandal known as the …

In 1984 the U.S. Congress banned military aid to the contras; the efforts of the administration of U.S. president Ronald Reagan to circumvent the ban led to the Iran-Contra Affair.

The CIA began airlifting supplies to the Contras, who conducted “spectacular” guerilla assaults on their target. During the second half of 1983, with the help of the CIA, the Contras conducted air strikes on …

Some rebels disliked being called Contras, feeling that it defined their cause only in negative terms, or implied a desire to restore the old order. Rebel fighters usually referred to themselves as comandos …

Conceived in 1981 as an armed force to interdict arms supplies shipped from Nicaragua to anti-government guerrillas in El Salvador, the contras grew from a five-hundred-man force to an …

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Aug 8, 2019 · The Contras were a coalition of several right-wing rebel groups. The largest of them were the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE Frente Sur), the …

The Contras were a rebel group in Nicaragua that opposed the Sandinista government from the early 1980s until the late 1990s. Backed by the United States,...

On October 5, 1986, a plane loaded with supplies for the Contras, financed by private benefactors, was shot down by Nicaraguan soldiers. On board were weapons and other lethal supplies and three …

Contras — Les Contras (terme espagnol signifiant « contre révolutionnaires »), appelés aussi Résistance nationale, étaient des groupes de lutte armée opposés au gouvernement sandiniste du …