Contra Commandas 1987
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Contra Commandas 1987
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FDN & ARDE Frente Sur Commandas, Nueva Guinea zone of southeast Nicaragua, 1987
Description
The contras (some references use the capitalized form, "Contras") is a label given to the various rebel groups that were active from 1979 through to the early 1990s in opposition to the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua. Among the separate contra groups, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force(FDN) emerged as the largest by far. In 1987, virtually all contra organizations were united, at least nominally, into the Nicaraguan Resistance.
From an early stage, the rebels received financial and military support from the United States government, and their military significance decisively depended on it. After US support was banned by Congress, the Reagan administration covertly continued it. These covert activities culminated in the Iran–Contra affair.
The term "contra" comes from the Spanish contra, which means against but in this case is short for la contrarrevolución, in English "the counter-revolution". Some rebels disliked being called contras, feeling that it defined their cause only in negative terms, or implied a desire to restore the old order. Rebel fighters usually referred to themselves as comandos ("commandos"); peasant sympathizers also called the rebels los primos("the cousins"). From the mid-1980s, as the Reagan administration and the rebels sought to portray the movement as the "democratic resistance," members started describing themselves as la resistencia. The Contras were not a monolithic group, but a combination of three distinct elements of Nicaraguan society
Ex-guardsmen of the Nicaraguan National Guard and other right-wing figures who had fought for Nicaragua's ex-dictatorSomoza —these later were especially found in the military wing of the FDN.
From an early stage, the rebels received financial and military support from the United States government, and their military significance decisively depended on it. After US support was banned by Congress, the Reagan administration covertly continued it. These covert activities culminated in the Iran–Contra affair.
The term "contra" comes from the Spanish contra, which means against but in this case is short for la contrarrevolución, in English "the counter-revolution". Some rebels disliked being called contras, feeling that it defined their cause only in negative terms, or implied a desire to restore the old order. Rebel fighters usually referred to themselves as comandos ("commandos"); peasant sympathizers also called the rebels los primos("the cousins"). From the mid-1980s, as the Reagan administration and the rebels sought to portray the movement as the "democratic resistance," members started describing themselves as la resistencia. The Contras were not a monolithic group, but a combination of three distinct elements of Nicaraguan society
Ex-guardsmen of the Nicaraguan National Guard and other right-wing figures who had fought for Nicaragua's ex-dictatorSomoza —these later were especially found in the military wing of the FDN.
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Tiomono
Veteran of A.R.D.E. Frente Sur Contras.
Combat tours in south of Nicaragua in 86,87,88.
Veteran of A.R.D.E. Frente Sur Contras.
Combat tours in south of Nicaragua in 86,87,88.
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Date
1987
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Tiomono
Veteran of A.R.D.E. Frente Sur Contras.
Combat tours in south of Nicaragua in 86,87,88., “Contra Commandas 1987,” The Contra War, accessed May 5, 2024, https://contrawar.omeka.net/items/show/1.