#Political
4 entries tagged Political.
Organizations (3)
- Contras Nicaraguan rebel groups organized and funded by the CIA to overthrow the Sandinista government, composed largely of former Somoza National Guard officers and implicated extensively in cocaine trafficking throughout the 1980s war.
- National Liberation Front The National Liberation Front (FLN) was a nationalist political party and armed liberation movement in Algeria. By 1955, the French government was facing an insurrection from the FLN, which was strongly supported by Gamal Abdel Nasser.
- Sandinistas Frente Revolucionario de Sandino (FRS), the leftist revolutionary guerrilla group that overthrew Somoza's U.S.-supported dictatorship in Nicaragua in 1979, triggering the Contra war.
Events (1)
- Iran-Contra Affair Political scandal involving the secret sale of arms to Iran to fund the Nicaraguan Contras in violation of the Boland Amendment, leading to indictments of multiple CIA and NSC officials.