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Consortium News
November 20, 2008
At the time, there also was a widespread belief that Gates was a "realist" who would persuade Bush to wind down the
Iraq war. Instead, Gates emerged as ...
Riverview ThisWeek
November 20, 2008
... even centuries of political unrest and civil war.
Nicaragua is no exception. As a coffee growing country, the guerrilla warfare of the
Contras against ...
The Public Record
November 20, 2008
Over the past year, Gates has received quite a bit of credit from
pundits and policy wonks alike for stabilizing
Iraq-that is turning what was a civil war ...
San Francisco Chronicle
November 20, 2008
Rice arrived in
Nicaragua in 1983 at a time when
the US-sponsored
Contra war (1981-1988) was raging against the leftist government of the National ...
Washington Post
November 20, 2008
The secret and illegal funding of that war led to the
Iran-Contra affair, in which proceeds from secret arms sales to
Iran were funneled to the
Contras. ...
Bi-College News
November 17, 2008
... involved with many of its political happenings-from the
Contra war and the Somoza rule in
Nicaragua to the assassination of Allende in
Chile. ...
International Herald Tribune
November 17, 2008
1758 - British forces capture
Senegal; in the French and Indian War, the British capture Fort Duquesne in present-day Pittsburgh. ...
Lawrence Journal World
November 17, 2008
Bush characterized the
Iran-Contra affair that took place during his vice-presidency as a "hiccup" that "didn't mean a damn thing. ...
Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck
November 16, 2008
Dodge City Daily Globe
November 15, 2008
In
Nicaragua, it was necessary to sacrifice more than 50000 young lives in a painful two- year war to make changes happen. And when the
Sandinistas assumed ...
Washington Post
November 15, 2008
the United States has considerable economic leverage it can employ -- there is no need for another contra
army. Among other things,
Nicaragua is currently ...
La Prensa San Diego
November 15, 2008
In the 1980s, after the
Sandinistas promised democracy,
Nicaragua underwent a bloody civil war pitting the Sandinistas against the
Contras. ...
Vancouver Sun
November 15, 2008
Capitol Hill Blue
November 15, 2008
1986 - A government tribunal in
Nicaragua convicted American Eugene Hasenfus of charges related to his role in delivering arms to Contra rebels. ...
AllAfrica.com
November 15, 2008
Beaufort Gazette
November 10, 2008
Real News Network
November 10, 2008
Rahm Emanuel voted for the
Iraq war, and some say he was very active in getting Democrats onside, voting for the
Iraq War. Obama won the Democratic primary ...
San Francisco Chronicle
November 9, 2008
Soon after taking office, the Nicaraguan IRS fined the conservative newspaper and constant critic, La Prensa $1.7 million. Poet Ernesto Cardenal, a former ...
Bloomberg
November 8, 2008
Sunday Business Post
November 8, 2008
Obama has shown little sympathy with the huddled masses of either
Venezuela,
Nicaragua or
Bolivia, who have at last elected democratic governments. ...
eTaiwan News
November 7, 2008
1986 - A government tribunal in
Nicaragua convicts American Eugene Hasenfus on charges of delivering arms to Contra rebels, and sentences him to 30 years in ...
Plain Dealer
November 6, 2008
Scoop.co.nz
November 5, 2008
Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, over 50% of Nicaraguan voters are under the age of 30 and therefore have no adult memory of the Contra war of the ...
The Washington Independent
November 4, 2008
In 1985, Kerry visited
Nicaragua and met with President [Daniel] Ortega, then under heavy pressure from
the United States and its Contra proxies. ...
OpEdNews
November 4, 2008
... as an
army photographer in
Okinawa and
Korea. In 1987 he traveled to the war zones of
Nicaragua with a veteran's group dedicated to stopping the
Contra war.
World Socialist Web Site
November 3, 2008
Truthdig
November 3, 2008
I have stood over the rows of bodies, including women and
children, butchered by
Ronald Reagan's Contra forces in
Nicaragua. I have inspected the mutilated ...
Zimbabwe Guardian
November 2, 2008
The NarcoSphere
November 1, 2008
From that moment forward, Castillo became a target of those pulling the strings in that dirty war. "Cele became a household word inside DEA," says Sandalio ...
Capitol Hill Blue
November 1, 2008
1989 - Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega announced the end of a cease-fire with the Contra rebels. 1998 - Nicaraguan Vice President
Enrique Bolanos ...
RIA Novosti
November 1, 2008
Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega, who led a Soviet-backed government that battled US-supported Contra rebels in the late 1980s, has sharply criticized the ...
eTaiwan News
November 1, 2008
1989 - Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega offers to end arms imports to his country in exchange for demobilization of Contra rebels. ...
The Nation.
October 30, 2008
Miguel d'Escoto was born in Los Angeles in 1933, the son of a Nicaraguan diplomat. An
uncle, Salomón de la Selva (1893-1959), was a famous Nicaraguan poet ...
Evening Bulletin
October 27, 2008
In a 2004 interview, he condemned
President Reagan as "the butcher of my people" in reference to the
Contra war in
Nicaragua. This struck a nerve with many ...
TheTyee.ca
October 27, 2008
In Bandits (1987), his semi-crooked
heroes go after some money the
CIA plans to give the
Nicaraguan Contras. Freaky Deaky (1988) includes relics of the ...
Consortium News
October 27, 2008
DigitalJournal.com
October 27, 2008
McCain supported Reagan's policy towards Central American conflicts, including the illegal US support for the
Contras in Nicaragua and in late 1985, ...
Pueblo Chieftain
October 26, 2008
Granma International
October 24, 2008
This sordid story is an important part - for those implicated - of the start of a process that, together with the
war in Iraq and other sins of the Bush ...
Aljazeera.com
October 23, 2008
