Nicaraguan Contra terrorists

Government transparency laws like the Freedom of Information Act exist to enforce the public's right to inspect records so we can all figure out what the heck is being done in our name and with our tax dollars. But when a public agency ignores, breaks or twists the law, your recourse varies by jurisdiction.

There was George H. W. Bush's 1992 Christmas Eve pardon of the men who helped the government sell weapons to Iran in order to fund Nicaragua's right-wing Contras militias. Bush Junior followed in his father's footsteps by pardoning Lewis “Scooter” Libby for his role in the 2003 CIA leak that blew ...

Without Reagan's direct knowledge, the administration took the millions of dollars generated by the weapons' sale and routed them to Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. At the time, the Contras were battling Nicaragua's Sandinista-led government in the wake of their overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ...

The indictment charged that the defendants circumvented a statutory ban on U.S. military aid to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels “by deceitfully and without legal authorization” setting up a clandestine ... Essentially, their actions went behind the back of Congress, which outlawed further support of the Contras.

Documentarian Jenny Murray helms this clunky, if still rousing tribute to the female members of Nicaragua's revolutionary Sandinista party. ... US residents probably best know the Sandinistas as the Communist-pegged bogeymen of the Iran-Contra debacle, though the realities of their actions and reforms ...

Government transparency laws like the Freedom of Information Act exist to enforce the public's right to inspect records so we can all figure out what the heck is being done in our name and with our tax dollars. But when a public agency ignores, breaks or twists the law, your recourse varies by jurisdiction.

Renowned for bringing transportation money back to the Chicago area from Washington, he famously twisted President Ronald Reagan's arm to provide federal funding for the CTA Orange Line to Midway after supporting Reagan with a vote in favor of aid to the Nicaraguan contras. The elder Lipinski ...

Three columns ago I said my next column would be on the current state of the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution. ... of Ben Linder, a 27-year-old U.S. engineer who was working on a small hydroelectric dam in rural Nicaragua in 1987 when he was murdered by U.S.-supported conter-revolutionary Contra forces.

Iran Contra unfolded shortly after the midterm elections of 1986, when Democrats retook control of the Senate, and news reports started to reveal a secret ... to provide assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras, right-wing rebels who fought to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government under Daniel Ortega.

The Reagan administration and the CIA also collaborated with Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers to support the Contras led to the “crack” epidemic of the ... cocaine into the U.S. and possibly inventing a new potent drug that was so addictive that it would guarantee a steady flow of cash for the Contra war. In the ...

On May 7th, 2016, The New York Times published a story by Frances Robles on a former Contra fighter who wished for U.S. aid to fight a covert war against Daniel Ortega and the Nicaraguan government titled 'Ortega vs. the Contras: Nicaragua Endures an '80s Revival' which paints a different picture in ...

During the U.S. government's decade-long support of the Contra rebels who waged an armed campaign against Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista regime in ... aid program's most fascinating product might be the batshit crazy psychological warfare manual cooked up for the Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.

Six years later she is a member of Nicaragua's Council of State where she represents the Nicaraguan Women's Association AMNLAE, is happily divorced, ... decorated with a gold medal after he had operated a machine gun after his father was killed by the American-supported contras attacking their village.