Sat. November 21, 2009
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O Jornal
November 20, 2009
The International
November 20, 2009
Following the Sandinista National Liberation Front's overthrow of the Somoza government in
Nicaragua, Contra rebels waged an 11-year civil war against the ...
KELOLAND TV
November 19, 2009
Best known for his role in the 1980s
Iran-Contra scheme to sell arms to
Iran and divert the money to Nicaraguan revolutionaries, the 66-year-old North spoke ...
The Nica Times
November 19, 2009
Although the civil society group Movement for
Nicaragua invited the former
Contras to march with them in Managua, the FDN says it's time for them to do ...
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
November 18, 2009
Best known for his role in the
Iran-Contra scheme to sell arms to
Iran and divert the money to Nicaraguan revolutionaries in the 1980s, North was the ...
eTaiwan News
November 18, 2009
CounterPunch
November 18, 2009
Even Nicaraguan Vice President Jaime Morales said he opposed President
Daniel Ortega's bid to change the
Constitution to allow re-election and will step ...
Australia.TO
November 15, 2009
Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a Nicaraguan priest who ministered to Sandinista guerrillas and is now president of the
UN General Assembly, ...
Raw Story
November 15, 2009
... was a conduit in the
Iran-Contra Scandal -- the deal though which
the US used profits from arms sales to
Iran to illegally fund the
Contras in Nicaragua ...
Voxy
November 13, 2009
Similarly,
Nicaragua was put through the ringer by Washington after the Sandinista regime (led by
Daniel Ortega) seized power in 1979. ...
Reuters
November 13, 2009
Honduras, meanwhile, became a base for
the US counter-insurgency, or Contra movement, against
Nicaragua's Sandinista government. ...
New York Times
November 13, 2009
Huffington Post (blog)
November 13, 2009
Its purpose was to circumvent a Congressional ban on aid to the Contras. Less than two months later, the Times announced the birth of the Nicaraguan Freedom ...
guardian.co.uk
November 11, 2009
Contra temps ... Vampire Weekend take a well-earned rest from a hard day's gaming. Photograph: Tim Soter In a revelation that will disappoint Nicaraguan ...
He ended up in
Nicaragua fighting for the
Contras, then settled in San Salvador. In May 2005 after showing up in Miami, holding a well attended press ...
Comic Book Resources
November 5, 2009
Study the Nicaraguan Contra
... in regards to
apartheid South Africa and support for the
Contras in Nicaragua, among others), it's isolation is highlighted, rather than its leadership. ...
... in regards to
apartheid South Africa and support for the
Contras in Nicaragua, among others), it's isolation is highlighted, rather than its leadership. ...
Media Monitors Network
November 4, 2009
...
eTaiwan News
November 4, 2009
Ortega, who doesn't have support to overturn term limits in the Nicaraguan
guardian.co.uk
November 3, 2009
Staines has also said he was involved in even more improbable-sounding Hart projects: "It was, 'Let's get
guns for the [Nicaraguan
CounterPunch
November 3, 2009
MiamiHerald.com
November 3, 2009
the United States has been increasingly voicing concerns about the state of Nicaraguan
the United States has been increasingly voicing concerns about the state of Nicaraguan democracy under President
Daniel Ortega, and the opposition is ...
Ortega, who doesn't have support to overturn term limits in the Nicaraguan Congress, took the issue to the constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court, ...
New York Times
November 1, 2009
More recently, it was a training and supply base for
United States-backed contra
eTaiwan News
October 31, 2009
1989 - Nicaraguan
World Socialist Web Site
October 30, 2009
...
This is reminiscent of the
CIA's ties to the
Contras, who fought the
Sandinistas in
Nicaragua during the 1980s. The
Contras also used the drug trade to fund ...
msnbc.com
October 28, 2009
The
CIA has been on both sides of the War on Drugs ever since they supported the Nicaraguan
Atlanta Journal Constitution
October 28, 2009
This is reminiscent of the
CIA's ties to the
Contras
Daily Times
October 27, 2009
But the money from the Iranian sales would be funnelled to the Contras
Politico
October 27, 2009
North was convicted on three counts related to the
Iran-Contra
Radio Netherlands
October 22, 2009
The
Sandinistas began to dominate the junta and after two of its members resigned Mr Ortega became the de facto ruler of
Nicaragua. ...
Inside Costa Rica
October 22, 2009
According to Bayardo Izabá, the head of the non-governmental Nicaraguan Human Rights Centre (CENIDH), the statistics in the UNDP report are an underestimate ...
Los Angeles Times
October 22, 2009
In the 1980s too,
Honduras became the principal base for efforts funded and directed by
the US to overthrow the Sandinista government in
Nicaragua and to ...
GlobalPost
October 22, 2009
... his own dictum by trying to trade arms for hostages and a little secretly channeled Iranian money to the Nicaraguan Contras, but that's another story).
