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The Obama Administration Continues to Neglect Latin America - Mexidata.info
The Obama Administration Continues to Neglect Latin AmericaMexidata.infoUnder President Reagan, Capitol Hill was rocked by debates over US aid to anti-Communist forces in Nicaragua and El Salvador, with efforts to support the Nicaraguan Contras ultimately leading to the biggest White House scandal since Watergate. ...

At memorial for Iran-contra figure Clair George, CIA colleagues' loyalty endures - Washington Post
At memorial for Iran-contra figure Clair George, CIA colleagues' loyalty enduresWashington PostGeorge faced charges that he made false statements to Congress in its investigation of the US government's sale of weapons to Iran for American hostages and the diversion of profits from those sales to fund Nicaragua's anti-Communist contras. ...

Panetta's Pentagon, Without the Blank Check - New York Times
New York TimesPanetta's Pentagon, Without the Blank CheckNew York TimesThe cold war dove who opposed Ronald Reagan's contra war in Nicaragua in the 1980s and George Bush's Persian Gulf war of 1991 has become a war on terror hawk, authorizing more drone strikes in Pakistan than George W. Bush. The critic who denounced ...and more »

The (some references use the capitalized form, " Contras" ) is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing Nicaragua's FSLN (Sandinista National en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras  · Cached page The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert OperationsNational Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 2 The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.htm  · Cached page Images of Discover images of nicaragua with Bing Image Search