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Contras
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Noun1.Contras - a Nicaraguan counterrevolutionary guerrilla force from 1979 to 1990; it opposed a left-wing government, with support from the United States
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Saves embarrassing situations such as befriending American presidents who bankrolled bin Laden in the 80s along with the Nicaraguan Contras.
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arms to regimes and movements too unpopular to grant direct and open military assistance--apartheid in South Africa, the Islamic Republic in Iran, the military junta in Guatemala, and the Nicaraguan Contras.
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This web of 'international banditry' meshes seamlessly with the CIA networks set up to fund the Nicaraguan Contras and Savimbi's UNITA.
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