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Consortium News
November 22, 2008
In 1987, when
President Reagan faced accusations that he authorized an off-the-books operation to send illicit assistance to the Nicaraguan contra rebels ...
Consortium News
November 21, 2008
... a National
Security Council aide inside Reagan's White House, was diverting money from Iranian arms sales to secretly fund the Nicaraguan contra rebels. ...
Riverview ThisWeek
November 21, 2008
Nicaragua is no exception. As a coffee growing country, the guerrilla warfare of the
Contras against the
Sandinistas decimated the coffee industry through ...
San Francisco Chronicle
November 21, 2008
Hooked on the idea, Rice left
Nicaragua to earn an MBA at UC Berkeley, taking his Nicaraguan wife, Marisol Aguilar, and his young son, Emiliano, with him. ...
Washington Post
November 21, 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. ...
San Francisco Chronicle
November 19, 2008
Nicaragua - El Cerrito resident Paul Rice stands at the edge of a dirt road, overlooking the volcanic peaks and adobe homes of this small Nicaraguan town ...
Bi-College News
November 18, 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 18, 2008
Lawrence Journal World
November 18, 2008
Bush characterized the
Iran-Contra affair that took place during his vice-presidency as a "hiccup" that "didn't mean a damn thing. ...
Political Affairs Magazine
November 17, 2008
While
Ronald Reagan could tell
Americans straight-faced that the ultra-right
Contras were "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers" in their battle ...
Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck
November 16, 2008
MiamiHerald.com
November 16, 2008
... has also reported from
Nicaragua for the paper. His books include Everybody Had His Own Gringo: The
CIA and the
Contras (Brassey's, 1992). ...
MiamiHerald.com
November 16, 2008
Dodge City Daily Globe
November 16, 2008
I refer to when the Sandinista guerrilla overthrew the Somozas' tyranny in
Nicaragua, my country of origin, in 1979. And now I have also witnessed the ...
Washington Post
November 16, 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 ...
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. ...
Vancouver Sun
November 15, 2008
The climax of his
career was pulling the curtain back on drug-smuggling by the
Nicaraguan Contras with links to Lt. Col.
Oliver North and the
CIA. ...
La Prensa San Diego
November 14, 2008
In the 1980s, after the
Sandinistas promised democracy,
Nicaragua underwent a bloody civil war pitting the Sandinistas against the
Contras. ...
Reuters
November 14, 2008
D'Escoto was foreign minister in
Nicaragua's Sandinista government in the 1980s, when it was battling a US-backed Contra insurgency. ...
AllAfrica.com
November 14, 2008
Economist
November 14, 2008
Ethics and Transparency, an independent Nicaraguan group, organised tens of thousands of observers. Refused accreditation, they had to watch from outside ...
Secrecy News
November 13, 2008
Thus, US support of the
Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s constituted unconventional warfare, as did US support of anti-Soviet
Mujahideen in
Afghanistan in ...
The Fulcrum
November 13, 2008
Real News Network
November 11, 2008
Parry has written several books, including Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & "Project Truth." (1999) and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush ...
Beaufort Gazette
November 10, 2008
Bloomberg
November 9, 2008
President
Ronald Reagan, who called Ortega ``the little dictator,'' ordered a blockade of
Nicaragua and funded the
Contras. Ortega turned to
Cuba and the ...
Real News Network
November 8, 2008
Parry has written several books, including Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & "Project Truth." (1999) and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush ...
Political Affairs Magazine
November 8, 2008
The incredible selection of rogues presented included "a Nicaraguan Contra" and "some Afghan
Mujahideen" who joined with Abramoff to sign a declaration ...
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. ...
NewsOK.com
November 8, 2008
... delicate missions took him to remote and dangerous areas of such tourist-unfriendly spots as
El Salvador and
Nicaragua in the 1980s and
Somalia in 1992. ...
eTaiwan News
November 8, 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 ...
International Herald Tribune
November 8, 2008
Nicaragua was a close Russian ally under Ortega in the 1980s, when Nicaragua fought US-backed Contra rebels. The two countries have strengthened relations ...
Economist
November 6, 2008
He secretly supplied cash to fight cold-war causes: $32m to the
Nicaraguan Contras, Mr Ottaway says, and $10m to bolster
Anti-Communist politicians in
Italy ...
Plain Dealer
November 6, 2008
Advance Titan
November 6, 2008
... of force" against
Nicaragua, demanding that
the US desist and pay extensive reparations, and declare all US aid to the
Contras, whatever its character, ...
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 ...
World Socialist Web Site
November 4, 2008
We did that at the Bay of Pigs, in
Vietnam-in
Lebanon in the early 1908s-in
Nicaragua with the
Contras and now we are in the process of doing it in
Iraq. ...
OpEdNews
November 4, 2008
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. ...
