Contras
The Contras were a collection of guerilla groups and political parties dubbed "counter-revolutionaries" by the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s. The United States under Presidents Jimmy Carter [1] and Ronald Reagan covertly supported the Contras.
Revelations of this covert funding fueled the Iran-Contra affair. Oliver North, who was intimately involved with the funding, is currently a senior correspondent at the Fox News Channel.
The Contras were much more brutal than the Sandinistas. The Contras regularly destroyed health centers, schools, agricultural cooperatives, and community centers-symbols of the Sandinistas' social programs in rural areas. People caught in these assaults were often tortured and killed in the most gruesome ways. People had their testicles cut off, eyes poked out, throats slit, limbs chopped off, and heads chopped off.[1]
Despite their brutality, the Contras were called the "Moral Equivalent of our Founding Fathers" by President Reagan.
See: Boland amendment.
External links
- Cuba: State Sponsored Terrorism Nicaragua 1979.
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