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Contras

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consnoun(programming) A data structure in Lisp that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.
disadvantagesnounA weakness or undesirable characteristic; con; drawback.
nicaraguannounA person from Nicaragua or of Nicaraguan descent.
contranoun(business) A deal to swap goods or services.
afghan mujahideenIslamist militant groups that fought against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent First Afghan Civil War.
death squads in el salvadorfar-right paramilitary groups acting in opposition to Marxist–Leninist guerrilla forces, most notably of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, and their allies among the civilian population before, during, and after the Salvadoran Civil War.
sandinista popular armyThe (or People's Army; , EPS) the military forces established in 1979 by the new Sandinista government of Nicaragua to replace the Nicaraguan National Guard, following the overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle.
national resistance armya guerilla army and the military wing of the National Resistance Movement that fought in the Ugandan Bush War against the government of Milton Obote, and later the government of Tito Okello.
vietcongnounA member of this organization.
nicaraguan revolutionnoun(Nicaragua) A period of armed conflict in Nicaragua from 1978 to 1990 between the socialist Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and the ruling Somoza dictatorship. After 1979 it also involved the Contras.
history of nicaraguaNicaragua is a nation in Central America.
junta of national reconstructionthe provisional government of Nicaragua from the fall of the Somoza family dictatorship in July 1979 until January 1985, with the election of Daniel Ortega as president of Nicaragua.
operation cyclonethe code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR in support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
cuban revolutionthe military and political overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship, which had reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959.
guatemalan civil wara civil war in Guatemala which was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups.
somali national movementone of the first and most important organized guerilla groups and Mujahideen groups that opposed the Siad Barre regime in the 1980s to the 1990s, as well as being the main anti-government faction during the Somaliland War of Independence.
tupamarosnoun(historical) An urban guerrilla organization in Uruguay in the 1960s and 1970s.
salvadoran civil wara twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union.
grupo colinaThe (Spanish for "hill group", ) was a military anti-communist death squad created in Peru that was active from October 1991 until November 1992, during the administration of president Alberto Fujimori.
gang of fournoun(China, historical, politics) A radical political faction composed of four Communist Party of China officials that came to prominence during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

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