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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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Former Contras, now called Recontras, who fought the Sandinista regime in the 1980s, took officials as hostages to pressure the government to give 77,000 Recontras back their lands and the jobs they had been promised in 1990.
Nicaragua: Sandinistas still in the driver's seat by Alisky, Marvin / USA Today (Magazine)
In all, the count was 15 to 8 in support of recontras, with three waverers.
Men of Zeal by Waldman, Steven / Washington Monthly
 
 
 
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