| In 1986 the World Court ruled that the US had violated international law by mining the waters of Nicaragua and arming the Contras. |
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| A decade after laying down their arms, the Contras and the Sandinistas are squaring off in an election that could return Daniel Ortega to power. |
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| If you hear the word Nicaragua and think Sandinistas and Contras, you're nearly two decades behind the times. |
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| Police, army, and Sandinistas killed former Contras, and northern Contra bands committed similar acts, often because of land disputes. |
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| The cocaine trade in Central America flourished when the US administration was backing the Contras to fight the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. |
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| When we supported the Contras against the Sandinista dictatorship, we took the opposite position and, according to the Left, we were wrong again. |
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| But it did not stop financial and political support to the Contras, it only forced the US administration to act secretively and cautiously. |
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| In Nicaragua the state of emergency has been suspended, a partial cease-fire introduced and indirect contact established with the Contras. |
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| The film follows the daily life of a group of British volunteers who travelled to the mountain regions of Nicaragua to help with the coffee harvest while local workers were otherwise engaged in fighting the Contras. |
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| In 1989, the Nicaraguan government and the Contras agreed on a peace settlement that included the demilitarization of the Contras and free and fair democratic elections. |
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| A difficult process of reconciliation between Sandinists, the democratic opposition and the Contras followed, marked by brief returns to rebellion by the Contras. |
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| The entire country is also still suffering from the effects of the civil war between Sandinistas and Contras, and of natural disasters like the appalling Hurricane Mitch. |
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| But the Sandinistas, not the contras, now threatened armed resistance to the new democratic government. |
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| And the movie accepts his assertion that he knew nothing of the illegal diversion of funds to the contras fighting in Nicaragua. |
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| At the time, the US was covertly backing the contras, the counter-revolutionaries who opposed the Sandinistas. |
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| His office wrote bogus editorial pieces under the names of Nicaraguan contras and got them published in the mainstream media. |
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| During the 1980s the contras, strongly backed by the United States, raised 18,000 troops to fight the revolution. |
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| The contras were conducting a guerrilla war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, a Marxist-infiltrated regime. |
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| In Nicaragua, meanwhile, many of those recently arrested for gun-running have turned out to be either former contras or members of the Sandinista army. |
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| Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances. |
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