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Nicaragua was recently ravaged by a civil war, which killed hundreds of thousands of people, and left 20% of the country's population homeless <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1225218.stm</ref>, between the Contra guerillas and the socialist [[Sandinista]] government.  

Nicaragua was recently ravaged by a civil war, which killed hundreds of thousands of people, and left 20% of the country's population homeless <ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/country_profiles/1225218.stm</ref>, between the Contra guerillas and the socialist [[Sandinista]] government.  

The Reagan Administration funded the Contra guerillas in defiance of the [[Boland amendment]], in what came to be known as the [[Iran-Contra affair]]. <ref>"President Ronald Reagan told a packed White House news conference that funds derived from covert arms deals with the Islamic Republic of Iran had been diverted to buy weapons for the U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua." http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB210/index.htm</ref>  

The Reagan Administration facilitated funding to the [[Contras]] through arms sales by Israel to Iran in whats become known as the [[Iran-Contra affair]]. <ref>"President Ronald Reagan told a packed White House news conference that funds derived from covert arms deals with the Islamic Republic of Iran had been diverted to buy weapons for the U.S.-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua." http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB210/index.htm</ref>   The post Vietnam-era [[Boland amendment]] denied direct appropriations to continue the policy of [[Containment]] as it perrtained to Nicaragua during this period of the [[Cold War]].

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