Nicaragua

Nicaragua
Location	Central America
Leader	President of Nicaragua
Type	nation state
Member of	Organisation of American States, UN
Subpage	•Nicaragua/Foreign Minister •Nicaragua/President •Nicaragua/Vice President

Nicaragua is a country in Central America. It was involved in Iran-Contra.

Iran Contra

Full article: “Iran-Contra”

The so-called "Iran-Contra" operation was an off-the-books method of arming the Nicaraguan "contras" (a.k.a. "terrorists", a.k.a. "freedom fighters") using some of the profits of CIA drug trafficking.

 

Event

Event
Operation Washtub

 

Citizens of Nicaragua on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann	5 February 1933	8 June 2017
Anastasio Somoza Debayle	5 December 1925	17 September 1980	Third generation "our son of a bitch"
Anastasio Somoza García	1 February 1896	29 September 1956	With the help of the US Marine Corps started a family dictatorship that maintained absolute control over Nicaragua for 42 years.
Felix Maradiaga	3 September 1976		Nicaraguan academic with deep state connections

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
CIA Media Operations in Chile, Jamaica, and Nicaragua	Article	16 March 1982	Fred Landis	How the CIA takes over the major newspaper in a country targeted for regime change, and uses it as an instrument of destabilization. The method is still very much used in 2021.

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