Sentences with phrase «arming contra»

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California.

Gist: Based on the novel by Nick Schou and true story from journalist Gary Webb.Gary Webb, this is about a reporter (Jeremy Renner) who becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California.

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.

What began as missions taking aerial photographs of «enemies of democracy» in Central America turned into money laundering, arming the Contras, and cocaine smuggling for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin cartel.

Not exact matches

The arms - flow issue was extremely important because it was a major pretext used to justify U.S. support for the contras.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

It would probably have sounded crazy if I said that the US Government was arming the Cartels, or selling arms to Iran to fund the Contras who hate america as much as they did the regime in power... but they did that too.

Perhaps people mean the 1980s when Iran - Contra saw shady arms deals with Iran on side of the Atlantic, and Oregreave, Hillsborough and Westland on the other?

Dumbbell Single - arm and single - legged RDL from Track Cyclist Kyra Lamberink (Silver medallist 2018 World Championships Team Sprint), figure the slight differences between the contra - lateral variation vs the ipsi - lateral variation

Similarly, Arokoski et al. (1999) found that the quadruped hip extension with contra - lateral arm lift produced the greatest gluteus maximus EMG amplitude, followed by the prone hip extension with flexed knee, followed by the horizontal back extension.

American Made, Doug Liman's new film about the misadventures of TWA - pilot - cum - CIA - spook - cum - drug - importer - cum - arms - dealer Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), is an intermittently amusing and muddled retelling of the beginnings of the Iran - contra affair, one that never quite settles on a tone.

Intel is even willing to pay manufacturers to use their processors, implementing a «contra revenue» strategy that aims to give the company a foothold in a segment where it falls far behind ARM based solutions from Qualcomm, Samsung, MediaTek and others.

«The only thing that has saved our ability to work with first - time homebuyers in this market has been the advent of no - doc, low - doc, low start - rate option ARMs, interest - only loans, and other flexible loan programs,» says Jeffrey S. Gill, broker - owner of Realty World of Contra Costa in the suburban San Francisco bedroom community of Antioch.