Sentences with phrase «nicaraguan contras»

After a showy introduction that uses archival footage and sound bites against a rousing score to juxtapose the rise of the War on Drugs and the Reagan administration's support for the Nicaraguan Contras, the filmmaking slows down considerably.

Dozens of characters pass through (including Pablo Escobar — Seal's story was a plotline on the TV show Narcos), and Seal survives long enough to get dragged into the Reagan administration's attempt to prop up the Nicaraguan contras and demonize the Sandinistas.

Electronic mail messages from this system had earlier revealed White House complicity in secret military aid to the Nicaraguan contras.

The film takes place in the mid 1990s, when Webb uncovered the CIA's past role in importing huge amounts of cocaine into the U.S. that was aggressively sold in ghettos across the country to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras rebel army.

• The CIA manual produced for the Nicaraguan contras included instructions on «Implicit and Explicit Terror.»

U.S. fundamentalists have also been deeply involved in the Nicaraguan contra war.

Not exact matches

Fear of the contras is woven into the very matrix of the everyday lives of rural Nicaraguans.

A major part of my job as communications officer was to work to improve the image of the F.D.N. [the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, which is the largest contra group] forces.

The U.S. - sponsored contra war also forced the Nicaraguan government to shift resources from development into defense.

The United States sought to destroy Nicaragua's economy through U.S. and contra attacks against production sites and human services and by forcing the Nicaraguan government to shift scarce resources away from development and into defense.

The respected human rights group Americas Watch has on numerous occasions condemned U.S. government efforts to distort the human rights record of both the Nicaraguan government and the U.S - backed contras.

It is abhorrent that a primary goal of the contra army is the systematic destruction of the Nicaraguan rural health care system.

The U.S - backed contras were instructed to kill people who worked to improve the living standards of the poor in an effort to undermine the most positive gains of the Nicaraguan revolution.

Although Robertson tried at first to pretend that CBN contributions were not meant for the counterrevolutionaries, his organization did not deny that the supplies were being shipped through intermediary groups with close ties to the Reagan administration or that they were being sent to the war - torn Nicaraguan - Honduran border, where the contras were headquartered.

Medicine, clothing, vehicles and other aid for so - called Nicaraguan refugees who also happened to be contras, or for Miskito Indians drawn into the contra struggle.

The reluctance to overstep acceptable boundaries helps to explain why Democrats in the U.S. Congress or journalists who disagreed with U.S. support for the contras rarely if ever spoke about positive aspects of the Nicaraguan revolution or about Nicaragua's right to self - determination.

• First, the Nicaraguan people made a logical choice in an election that the U.S. government, its UNO backed coalition, and its contra army all framed as a choice between ongoing war and «peace.»

DeWitt plays Webb's loyal wife Sue who stands by him after he's betrayed by his own newspaper and wrongly discredited for reporting that Nicaraguan rebels working directly with the CIA were smuggling cocaine into the U.S. and using the profits to arm Contra militias back home.

Best of all he transports a staggering array of guns to the Contras in Nicaragua, who are fighting the rebel Sandinistas for control of the Nicaraguan government.