The contra war in Nicaragua - Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky's account of the US-backed “contra” counter-insurgency in Nicaragua against the left-wing government brought to power on the back of a popular ...

Latin America’s first elected female president won a surprise victory over Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and demobilized army troops.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's plan to created neighborhood watch committees has some ex-Contra rebels warning that civil war might again be a possibility. IE 11 is not supported.

Nicaragua’s Contra War Reprised by Toni Solo. Another article in the continuing media campaign in Britain against Venezuela’s President Chavez again posits civil war as a possible sequel to ...

This provision was aimed at ending the Contra war in Nicaragua and included an offer of amnesty to those Nicaraguan Contra fighters who chose to lay down their arms and reintegrate into society. This ...

Before the assassination of her husband, the editor of the only independent newspaper in Nicaragua, Violeta Chamorro was scarcely involved in politics. But as the country descended into revolution and ...

Argentina Ticays heats a pizza on the sheet-metal grill of her sidewalk pushcart and delivers an update on the truly local economy. Sales are off at the hardware store next door, and the metalworks… ...

Nicaragua: The Contras’ Revived Challenge. 8 minute read. Jill Smolowe. April 18, 2005 12:00 AM EDT. ... which was reluctant to become more deeply involved in the Nicaraguan civil war, ...

Iran-Contra in Venezuela . The experience of the long drawn out war against Nicaragua is being brought to bear on Venezuela by the same people who led the United States to its conviction for terrorism ...

Oscar Sobalvarro, was 'Comandante Ruben' during Nicaragua's 'Contra' war in the 1980s and briefly became a presidential candidate this week until his party was eliminated by the Supreme Electoral ...

The country’s first female president, known as Doña Violeta to both supporters and detractors, presided over the Central American nation’s uneasy transition to peace after nearly a decade of ...

Violeta Chamorro, whose 1990 upset victory made her Nicaragua's first female president — and ushered peace into civil ...