He says yes when asked to run guns down to the Contras, in Nicaragua, and then, later, when asked to run planeloads of Contras back to the United States, for secret military training.
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Contras rebelling against the revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s.
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To get around that, a plan was cooked up to provide aid to the Contras "off the books" — in part by making arms sales to Iran and then funneling the money to the Contras.
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But when the opposition Contras launched a civil war, attempting to remove the Sandinistas, the Reagan administration secretly funneled money -- as part of what is known as the Iran-Contra scandal -- to the Contras.
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The contributions continued after Congress cut off funding to the contras.
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The funding of the Contras was largely regarded as U.S.-sponsored terrorism.
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But memories of the Contras in Nicaragua should quickly squash that temptation.
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Even North's malfeasance was perpetrated toward the goal, however flawed, of arming Contras.
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The President did NOT know about the diversion of funds to the Contras.
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Democrats lost on the Fairness Doctrine, and agreed to "nonlethal" aid to the Contras.
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As the rebellion intensified, he denounced Sandinista excesses ceaselessly but rarely condemned the contras.
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No había pensado en los pros y contras, no quería discutir ni estaba enojada.
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Although, under his aegis, the contras gradually disarmed, for years he was not truly neutral.
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His government then fought a war against U.S.-backed "Contras" and he was defeated in elections.
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The contras of today, often nicknamed "the rearmed," are a shadow of what they once were.
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Mr. Aronson backed military aid for the contras, but wanted them to commit to protecting human rights.
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During Ronald Reagan's presidency, he was an invaluable conduit of cash and weapons to the Nicaraguan contras.
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He bemoans the "treachery" of those who joined the vigilantes and transformed into enemies, or contras, overnight.
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A year later Cardinal Obando traveled to Washington, condemned the Sandinistas and spoke well of the contras.
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His government then fought a war against U.S.-backed "Contras" before he was voted out in 1990.
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He fought against the US-backed contras during the 1980s and has remained a key ally to Venezuela.
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The Reagan administration even funded an opposition insurgent group known as the Contras to root out the Sandinistas.
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But Mr. Aronson also helped bring about the demobilization of the contras after the Sandinistas lost elections in 1990.
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Increasingly he backed the right-wing contras, funded by the United States, despite their atrocities in the civil war.
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He also denied trying to solicit money from foreign countries to circumvent a congressional prohibition against financing the contras.
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High officials in the administration were found to have been "selling arms to the Iranians and using the money to buy arms for the Contras fighting the leftist Sandinistas in Nicaragua, violating both an international arms embargo against Iran and a congressional order forbidding the administration from supplying the Contras," Mr. Whitney said.
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Eventually, the two operations connected: The NSC began diverting proceeds from the Iranian arms sales to help fund the Contras.
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I was also writing about politics and culture: editorials denouncing Reagan's support for the Nicaraguan Contras, essays on contemporary cinema.
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In 20183, the United States began backing the contras, the right-wing paramilitary opposition to Nicaragua's left-wing Sandinista government.
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In return, he obligingly diverted the proceeds with a nod from America's Republican leaders to the Contras, Nicaragua's anti-communist rebels.
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When the United States-backed "contras" launched their anti-Sandinista rebellion, he encouraged them and emerged as their unofficial spiritual guide.
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" Judy Mann, a Post columnist, put it this way: "The kitchen table is not where you discuss aid to the contras.
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" At the camp, the Zetas had assembled hundreds of prisoners—captured adversaries from the rival Sinaloa cartel—whom they called "contras.
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Prince Bandar pledged $1 million per month to help fund the contras, in recognition of the administration's past support to the Saudis.
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It was only in 1988, when U.S. Congress voted to terminate all support for the Contras that a settlement was ultimately reached.
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Administration officials used the missing money to secretly fund the Contras, right-wing rebels attempting to overthrow the leftist government in Nicaragua.
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And he agreed to send humanitarian aid, but not military aid, to the Nicaraguan contras, the rebels fighting the leftist Sandinista government.
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The scandal arose over secret arms sales to Iran; the US used the proceeds to fund anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua, called the Contras.
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But I say, if Colonel North ripped off the ayatollah and took some $30 million to give to the contras, God bless Colonel North.
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The United States at that time — I don't know how much you know about this — was actively supporting the Contras to overthrow the government.
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There were the Sandinistas, the contras, El Salvador, Panama, massacres in Haiti, drug lords threatening the stability of Colombia and the Latin American debt crisis.
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So rather than abide by the law, Reagan simply figured out a way to go around Congress and fund the Contras anyway, just in secret.
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His adversaries, known as the Contras, received secret, illicit financing by the Reagan administration, leading to one of the biggest American scandals of the era.
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"The army is killing people who were contras in the past," said José N. Rodríguez, 210, who was injured in the backpack bombing last year.
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On her wedding day, she sneaks in an interview with representatives of the Nicaraguan contras before racing with Torgerson to City Hall in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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As Robert Kagan noted in his 1996 book A Twilight Struggle, aid to the Nicaraguan contras was the "defining issue" separating the hawks from the doves.
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The government denies that politically motivated rebels in the country still exist, despite occasional attacks on police stations and the killings of Sandinistas and known contras.
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En esta columna, la ginecobstetra Jen Gunter ofrece una explicación científica a los pros y los contras de la placentofagia, una práctica cada vez más común.
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Meanwhile, a war raged in Nicaragua as the victorious Sandinista revolutionaries fought insurgents known as the contras, who were backed by the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
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Oliver L. North, a deputy director of the National Security Council, in a covert operation to support the contras with proceeds from clandestine arms sales to Iran.
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In 1986, Speaker Tip O'Neill, a Democrat, refused to let Reagan address the House before it voted on an aid package for the Contras, the Nicaraguan rebels.
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Iran-Contra did not bring Reagan down, in large part because there was no smoking gun to prove that Reagan knew money was being diverted to the Contras.
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Some of the profits were then funneled to the Contras, several Nicaraguan opposition groups tied to the former regime, who were fighting to overthrow the country's leftist government.
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The scandal centered on evidence the Reagan administration conspired to deceive Congress in connection with using the proceeds of arms sales to Iran to illegally fund Nicaraguan Contras.
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Tyson and his men are contras — yes, like the ones from the 212s who received stealth funding during the Reagan administration to topple Mr. Ortega's leftist Sandinista government.
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The problem was "the Enterprise," using the scheme to secretly fund arms and training for the contras fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, in contravention of the Boland Amendment.
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The public loved North, who, dressed in military garb and stood by his decision to provide secret assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras despite a congressional ban against doing so.
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Still, Obando y Bravo helped mediate ceasefire talks between Ortega's Sandinista government and the Contras who were ensnared in a 1980s civil war that cost at least 30,000 lives.
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To its fans, Sandinista Nicaragua was a saintly David which, having overthrown a brutal and corrupt regime, was then besieged by the Contras, armed by the United States Goliath.
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While violence from the anti-communist contras was magnified by the American media, victims of Sandinista violence were effectively silenced in those pre-internet days of liberal media monopoly.
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After the Sandinistas triumphed in 261, the U.S. waged a bloody war to take back the country with a terrorist paramilitary force called the contras, who regularly murdered civilians.
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Gran Bretaña ha estado debatiendo los pros y los contras de la membresía a una comunidad europea de naciones casi desde el momento en que se planteó la idea.
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Mr. Ortega became president and ruled Nicaragua throughout the 22021s, but counterrevolutionary forces known as the Contras tried to topple him using secret, illicit financing by the Reagan administration.
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From leftist guerrilla insurgencies in El Salvador and Guatemala to the Contras fighting Nicaragua's revolutionary Sandinista government, hundreds of thousands died and countless more fled to the United States.
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The Reagan administration, with the pretext of a renewed Cold War, tried to undermine congressional limits on aid to the Contras by using funds from secret arms sales to Iran.
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When the United States Congress cut funding to the Contras, the Reagan administration raised money by illegally selling weapons to Iran in what became known as the Iran-Contra Affair.
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Oliver North's political-military affairs section, which had hatched the covert plot to sell arms to Iran to finance right-wing guerrillas, known as the contras, fighting Nicaragua's leftist government.
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Directed by Dee Rees ("Mudbound"), who wrote the screenplay with Marco Villalobos, the movie plunges Elena into the 1980s geopolitical turmoil around the United States's funding of Contras in Nicaragua.
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"Sin duda la respuesta de las autoridades en los últimos años no ha sido adecuada ni suficiente", decía el consejo en referencia a la crisis de violencia contras las mujeres.
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North had been dismissed by President Ronald Reagan in November 1986 after his role in the sale of weaponry to the Contras in Nicaragua through intermediaries in Iran was made public.
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During the Reagan administration, the US funneled money and arms to right-wing rebel groups known as the Contras, which fought a brutal civil war against the Nicaraguan government until 1990.
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There was a brief, one-day shutdown before Reagan got his wish: the Democrats gave up on the Fairness Doctrine and agreed to send millions in nonlethal aid to the Contras.
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This time, the actions weren't just horrendously immoral but illegal as well; elongating the Vietnam War was, alas, not a crime, but funding the Contras with Iranian arms deal money was.
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While never holding a position in the Reagan administration, he did help write an important speech for Ronald Reagan praising the contras as freedom fighters in a worldwide battle against Soviet expansion.
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"People here are proud of the part they played in the revolution," says his father, Alvaro Gomez Sr., who lost a leg in the struggle against US-backed Contras in the 1980s.
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Along the way, he worked with Oliver North, supporting the Contras in Central America, first met Trump in 1988, and once entertained Vladimir Putin at a reception at his house in Russia.
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The city was hurt by the Sandinistas' nationalization of the mining industry after Somoza's ouster, and later by a civil war, which pitted Ortega's leftists against the right-wing, U.S.-financed Contras.
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The Reagan Administration, perceiving a threat to American interests, authorized the C.I.A. to organize a violent uprising against Ortega; the insurgents, led by former Somoza National Guardsmen, became known as the Contras.
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Though middle-class protesters in the city and contras in the countryside are deeply skeptical of the wealth that has revolved around Mr. Ortega, polls show that the president enjoys strong support.
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Mr. Leiken's conversion was cited in a speech by Mr. Reagan and provided an intellectual foundation for Washington's support for the Contras, the rightist guerrillas who were seeking to overthrow the Sandinistas.
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He was involved in carrying out Mr. Bush's invasion of Panama in 1989, and he was a strong supporter of the contras in Nicaragua in their fight against that country's leftist Sandinista government.
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The real Mr. Seal may have played a jaw-droppingly outlandish role in that notorious affair, which, among many other byzantine turns, involved the National Security Council funneling aid to the Nicaraguan contras.
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Richard Secord and Iranian businessman Albert Hakim, were indicted for their role in illegally sending money from the sale of weapons to Iran to the Nicaragua Contras -- despite a congressional ban on doing so.
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In 1985, when President Ronald Reagan sought more aid for the right-wing contras in Nicaragua, Mr. Turnipseed wrote an opinion article in The Times saying that Reagan was playing on longstanding Southern fears.
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She is best remembered for ending the rule of Ortega, a Cold War nemesis of the United States who defied the U.S.-backed rightwing Contras that tried to overthrow the Sandinista government that ousted Somoza.
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But more than business, he says he's an aficionado of Russian art and culture, a child of the Cold War who fought Soviet Communism with the Contras and with his old boss, Jack Kemp. Bond.
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The CIA kept Seal very busy: They sent him to Panama to get intel from Manuel Noriega; they had him fly weapons to the contras in Nicaragua, which led to smuggling drugs for the cartels.
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But Father Cardenal's critics said the ministry was imposing ideological uniformity by pressuring new writers to produce propaganda, particularly during the Sandinistas' long guerrilla war against an American-backed counterrevolutionary force known as the contras.
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Thus, the "arms for hostages" deal with Iran, and the transfer of the illegally gained monies to Nicaraguan Contras who were barred from receiving U.S. support by Congress, threatened to bring down the Reagan administration.
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The Iran-Contra scandal revealed that Ronald Reagan's administration had been secretly selling weapons to Iran, and National Security Council officials used the proceeds to fund the Nicaraguan Contras despite a congressional prohibition against doing so.
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The secret operation was directed by the National Security Council's Oliver North and used the proceeds from weapon sales to Iran to fund the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua -- despite a congressional ban on such funding.
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Abrams famously advocated for the armed support of Nicaraguan Contras and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress about secret efforts to arm the rebel forces -- before he received a presidential pardon.
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After the revelations that his national security staff had traded arms for hostages held by Iran and transferred funds to the Nicaraguan contras, Reagan cleaned house and agreed to reforms of government oversight of covert action.
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There is overwhelming evidence that George H.W. Bush in the 1980s had helped harness Colombian cocaine profits to fund the Nicaraguan contras—a saga on which Narcos is criminally silent, given the near certainty of Escobar's participation.
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Born in Nicaragua to a father who was a freedom fighter for the anticommunist Contras movement (supported by Ronald Reagan in the 1979 Revolution), she says she was a Republican for as long as she could remember.
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Bush started campaigning under the shadow of the Iran-Contra scandal -- a covert operation to use the money made from selling weapons to Iran to provide funds to the Nicaraguan Contras, despite a legislative prohibition from Congress.
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In 22, Lawrence Walsh was named as independent counsel to investigate the Iran-Contra affair involving illegal arms sales to Iran under Republican President Ronald Reagan, with the proceeds diverted to fund rebels in Nicaragua called Contras.
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In 1987, for example, a joint committee uncovered the ways in which top members of President Reagan's administration used the money from arms sales to Iran to finance the Nicaraguan Contras, despite a congressional ban on doing so.
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Chapo first made a name for himself in the mid-80s, smuggling Colombian cocaine for the Guadalajara Cartel, along the drugs-for-arms pipeline the CIA fostered as part of its illegal, covert support for the Nicaraguan contras.
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In 1986, the scheme exploded into public view after the Lebanese magazine Al Shiraa published the story of the arms sales to Iran and Sandinista forces downed a cargo plane carrying weapons and other supplies for the contras.
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Connections between the U.S. government and the cartels have long been the subject of speculation, particularly after revelations that the U.S. partnered with both Colombian and Mexican cartels to supply arms and funds to the Contras in Nicaragua.
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Colonel North was a central player in a Reagan administration scheme to sabotage the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua by secretly selling arms to Iran and using the proceeds to finance rightist Nicaraguan rebels, known as the contras.
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In 1986, North was a National Security Council staffer tasked with an elaborate scheme to use profits from secret Iranian arms sales to back anti-communist Nicaraguan rebels, known as the Contras -- something Congress had already specifically prohibited.
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To futilely condemn more Contras to death, as we did the Cuban freedom fighters at the Bay of Pigs and our own countrymen in Vietnam, to continue in ambivalent, contradictory policy-making, is no longer an acceptable alternative.
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During the Iran Contra scandal, the nation learned that high-ranking officials in Ronald Reagan's administration had sold arms to Iran and used the proceeds to provide support to the Nicaraguan Contras despite a congressional ban on doing so.
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Even as the Contras faced mounting allegations of brutal killings and other atrocities, Mr. Reagan backed the anti-Communist forces with a determination that ultimately plunged him into legal scandal after his administration defied congressional restrictions on funding them.
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President Nixon secretly bombed Cambodia, while President Ronald Reagan's National Security Council conducted an elaborate operation of selling weapons to Iran and using the proceeds to fund the Nicaraguan Contras that they continually insisted to reporters they were not doing.
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Reagan was the prime mover in Mr. Reagan's efforts to recover from the scandal, which was known as Iran-contra because some of the proceeds from the sale had been diverted to the contras opposing the leftist government of Nicaragua.
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El Times acudió a la edición 49 de la feria para presenciar eventos como el de un niño de 10 años que baila tap vestido de unicornio y una conferencia para debatir los pros y contras de legalizar los hongos alucinógenos.
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The Iran-Contra special prosecutor was appointed after discovery of an illegal scheme in which proceeds for arms sales to Iran (then under an arms embargo) were to be used to fund the Nicaraguan Contras in violation of a congressional funding ban.
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Against that perception, The Americans has often incorporated inglorious episodes from American history into its plot-lines, highlighting the American program to arm Contras in Nicaragua in season 2, and featuring American support of the apartheid regime in South Africa in season 3.
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The House and Senate Committees that looked into the Iran-Contra affair in 1987 unpacked the tangled web of policymakers, arms dealers and high-level advisers who were illegally sending money to the Nicaraguan Contras -- despite a congressional ban on doing so.
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In 1986, acting under the independent counsel provision of the now-expired Ethics in Government Act, Lawrence Walsh investigated the Reagan administration's sales of weapons to Iran to secure the release of U.S. hostages and to fund Nicaraguan rebels known as Contras.
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During Ronald Reagan's presidency, the shocking scandal of Iran-Contra in 1986 and 1987 exposed how a small group of officials in the National Security Council and CIA secretly sold weapons to Iran and illegally used the money to support the Nicaraguan Contras.
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When, in the late 70s, the Nicaraguan resistance group called the Sandinistas overthrew the country's dictatorship that had been in power for over 40 years, the US opposed the revolution, backed the dictatorship, and later supported the rebel group known as the Contras.
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A woman gave her a T-shirt featuring Che Guevara and the words "Viva Los Sandinistas," the Nicaraguan socialist political party that the U.S. had tried to overthrow by backing the right-wing Contras, leading to a decade of civil war in Nicaragua.
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While in El Salvador the conflict could arrive at his doorstep, the encounters in Nicaragua were deep in the countryside, as well as in Honduras, where the Contras were based — even if Honduran officials tried to save face by denying their presence.
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In the 1980s, he made a name for himself shooting everything from the Contras, the US-supported, murderous right-wing rebel group in Nicaragua, to the family members of those who had been "disappeared" at the height of the Guatemalan Civil War.
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The reason Reagan decided to do all of this covertly, instead of just funding the Contras openly, is that Congress had passed a series of acts, collectively known as the Boland Amendment, explicitly intended to prevent the Reagan administration from further interfering in Nicaragua.
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President Ronald Reagan falsely denied to Americans that the United States had traded weapons to Iran for hostages and was blamed for members of his administration lying to Congress about their providing support to the Nicaraguan Contras despite a congressional ban on doing so.
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The CIA recruited him as a fresh-eyed cadet in a Peruvian military academy, and trained him in counter-insurgency and jungle ops; he was on the Agency's payroll from 291 to 1988, an invaluable conduit of cash and weapons to the Nicaraguan contras.
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Even though we weren't technically pushing into a foreign territory, we were trying to obfuscate from obeying the laws and regulations set up by Congress against (1) selling arms to Iran, and (2) continuing to fund the rebels known as the Contras in Nicaragua.
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Mr. Parry won the George Polk Award for national reporting in 21993 for his disclosures that the Central Intelligence Agency had provided an assassination manual to the so-called contras, the right-wing insurgents who were seeking to topple the socialist government in Nicaragua.
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Ortega, who fought against US-backed contras during the 1980s and has been in power for 11 years, backed down a few days later, but the government's heavy-handed repression of the protests and the rising death toll ignited a national movement demanding the President's resignation.
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Mr. Clarridge's efforts against international terrorism came as he was becoming ensnared by investigations into the Reagan administration's efforts to use proceeds from secret arms sales to Iran to arm the contras, a Nicaraguan rebel group battling troops of the country's socialist government, known as the Sandinistas.
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A joint House and Senate committee reviewed the role of the Reagan White House in the diversion of Iran arms sales funds to Nicaraguan contras and took testimony from, among others, two national security advisers to the president and the national security adviser to the vice president.
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Report: Iran-Contra What it was: An investigation of a secret and rogue operation, under the direction of the National Security Council's Oliver North, that used the proceeds from weapon sales to Iran to fund the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua -- despite a congressional ban on such funding.
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Abrams also played a vital role in the Iran-Contra scandal, in which the Reagan administration secretly sold arms to Iran and used the money to fund Nicaraguan right-wing fighters called the Contras — even hiding information from Congress to cover up the situation, which is a federal crime.
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Mr. Abrams is known for his neoconservative views and experience under President Ronald Reagan, where he was involved in the secret plan to supply weapons to the contras fighting the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and in the George W. Bush administration, where he was a proponent of the Iraq war.
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During the same period, Adnan Khashoggi, who was listed on a 1991 Defense Intelligence Report as having sold machine guns to the Medellin Cartel, was borrowing from the bank to finance weapons sales to Iran—the proceeds for which, like some of Noriega's earnings, were then funneled to the Nicaraguan Contras.
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As Iran was under an arms embargo (one that the US was vigorously pressing other nations to abide by), and as Congress had explicitly prohibited the US government from funding the Contras, and as Reagan had vowed not to negotiate with hostage takers, this operation had the makings of a presidency-ending scandal.
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In the exhibition's six rooms, monitors flicker with scenes from the nine productions that Abdoh wrote and directed, including "Peep Show" (1988), which was staged in a derelict motel in Los Angeles and featured sometimes scantily clad performers, full of testiness and threat, acting out scenarios about porn, drugs, and the Contras.
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In the 1980s, the United States supported a military-run government there that routinely "disappeared" and tortured its opponents, while the CIA used the country as a training ground for the Contras it backed,who were then fighting the Sandinistas across the border in Nicaragua (who had recently deposed their own US-backed dictator).
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President: Ronald Reagan Senate: Democrats (54-46), Majority Leader Robert Byrd House: Democrats (258-177), Speaker Jim Wright Why: Congressional Democrats were resisting further funding for the Contras in Nicaragua, and insisted on reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, a Federal Communications Commission rule that had recently been abandoned, which required broadcasters to show balanced perspectives on political issues.
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Gustavo Álvarez Martínez, remained the most powerful figure in Honduras, inviting the United States to train and arm anti-Nicaraguan government forces — known as the Contras — on Honduran soil and serving as the point man for United States officials as they poured tens of millions of dollars into defeating the communists in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
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Although the congressional investigation had produced damning evidence about how high level officials had subverted the laws prohibiting US support to the Nicaraguan Contras, North won over the public -- swept up by "Ollie-mania" -- through a patriotic performance, whereby he excited many Americans who concluded he had only been attempting to do what was best for the country.
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Soon enough, Seal is running a classic shell company (the initials are IAC), and has hooked up with the Medellin cartel, earning millions ferrying kilos of coke into the U.S. The CIA, meanwhile, has its own agenda in having Barry deliver military-grade weapons to the Nicaraguan Contras, who seem far more interested in whatever contraband he can bring them than fighting communism.
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North is known for his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal, a two-part operation in which, despite sanctions, senior officials assisted in the secret sale of weapons to Iran in the 1980s and then funneled the funds to the Contras, a group of right-wing rebels in Nicaragua, in spite of a congressional ban on funding the war there.
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A Drew DeSilver article for the Pew Research Center from 2013 reminds us that a string of Oval Office addressed by Ronald Reagan failed to move the needle on voters' view of providing aid to the Contras in Nicaragua, George W. Bush's congressional address on behalf of comprehensive immigration reform left opinion flat, and George H.W. Bush's speech defending his bipartisan congressional budget deal did nothing to change views.
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