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Revelations of this covert funding fueled the [[Iran-Contra_Affair|Iran-Contra affair]]. [[Oliver North]], who was intimately involved with the funding, is currently a senior correspondent at the [[Fox News Channel]]. No one was ever convicted of violating any law by finding the Contras. Convictions for other aspects of the covert operation were overturned on appeal.
Revelations of this covert funding fueled the [[Iran-Contra_Affair|Iran-Contra affair]]. [[Oliver North]], who was intimately involved with the funding, is currently a senior correspondent at the [[Fox News Channel]]. No one was ever convicted of violating any law by finding the Contras. Convictions for other aspects of the covert operation were overturned on appeal.
The Contras "regularly destroyed health centers, [[school]]s, agricultural cooperatives, and community centers-symbols of the Sandinistas' social programs in rural areas." [http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Nicaragua_KH.html]
President [[Ronald Reagan]] honored the Contras by describing them as the "Moral Equivalent of our Founding Fathers."
In their 1987 human rights report, the Catholic Institute for International Relations described the Contras' operating procedures as: "The record of the contras in the field, as opposed to their official professions of democratic faith, is one of consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping."
President [[Ronald Reagan]] mistakenly honored the Contras by describing them as the "Moral Equivalent of our Founding Fathers."
See: [[Boland amendment]].
See: [[Boland amendment]].