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The Contras (from Spanish: contrarrevolucionarios, lit ' counter-revolutionaries ') were the anti-communist right-wing rebels who waged a guerrilla war against the Marxist Sandinista National Liberation Front and the Junta of National Reconstruction, which came to power after the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979
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In 1984 the U S Congress banned military aid to the contras; the efforts of the administration of U S president Ronald Reagan to circumvent the ban led to the Iran-Contra Affair
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Once the United States became involved with maintaining the Contras, it sought to unite the anti-Sandinista forces (the FDN and others) and create an “attractive” political identity to attract support at home and abroad
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Conceived in 1981 as an armed force to interdict arms supplies shipped from Nicaragua to anti-government guerrillas in El Salvador, the contras grew from a five-hundred-man force to an estimated twelve thousand men with the objective of ousting the Sandinistas from political power
- Contras - New World Encyclopedia
Some rebels disliked being called Contras, feeling that it defined their cause only in negative terms, or implied a desire to restore the old order Rebel fighters usually referred to themselves as comandos ("commandos"); peasant sympathizers also called the rebels los primos ("the cousins")
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The Contras were a rebel group in Nicaragua that opposed the Sandinista government during the 1980s
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Nevertheless, the case for support of the Contras continued to be made in Washington, D C , by both the Reagan administration and the Heritage Foundation, which argued that support for the Contras would counter Soviet influence in Nicaragua
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