Contra Dancing in Buffalo NY. Join the fun! We dance on 1st and 3rd Saturdays from September to June and 3rd Saturdays only in July and August.

The Contras (from Spanish: contrarrevolucionarios, lit. ' counter-revolutionaries ') were the anti-communist right-wing rebels who waged a guerrilla war against the Marxist Sandinista …

Some rebels disliked being called Contras, feeling that it defined their cause only in negative terms, or implied a desire to restore the old order. Rebel fighters usually referred to …

Conceived in 1981 as an armed force to interdict arms supplies shipped from Nicaragua to anti-government guerrillas in El Salvador, the contras grew from a five-hundred-man force to an …

Dec 2, 2025 · In 1984 the U.S. Congress banned military aid to the contras; the efforts of the administration of U.S. president Ronald Reagan to circumvent the ban led to the Iran-Contra …

The Contras were a rebel group in Nicaragua that opposed the Sandinista government during the 1980s. Funded and supported by the United States, they became emblematic of U.S. foreign …

The CIA began airlifting supplies to the Contras, who conducted “spectacular” guerilla assaults on their target. During the second half of 1983, with the help of the CIA, the Contras conducted air …

Nevertheless, the case for support of the Contras continued to be made in Washington, D.C., by both the Reagan administration and the Heritage Foundation, which argued that support for …

The meaning of CONTRA is against —used chiefly in the phrase pro and contra. How to use contra in a sentence.

The Contras were the anti-communist right-wing rebels who waged a guerrilla war against the Marxist Sandinista National Liberation Front and the Junta of Nation...