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Nicaragua Insurgency 1981-1990 (994 words) |
 | The Contras' brutal practices of attacks on rural cooperatives, villages, and clinics, often involving the deaths of civilians and the torture and killing of Sandinista officials and soldiers, brought accusations that the Contras were conducting a deliberate campaign of terrorism. |
| Many Nicaraguan villagers in the war zones were evacuated to resettlement camps to give the government free-fire zones and to deny the Contras local support and intelligence. |
| After internationally monitored Nicaraguan elections were set for February 1990, five Central American presidents agreed that a new organization, the International Support and Verification Commission of the Organization of American States, would oversee the voluntary demobilization, repatriation, or relocation of the Contra forces over a ninety-day period. |
| Nicaragua 1984: Swirl In The Eye Of The Storm (17567 words) |
| It was expected that a disciplined force could replace the armies tainted by corruption and local oppression, thus removing principal contributors to social turmoil, disorder and financial disorganization. |
| Nicaragua Democratic Force (FDN) Adolfo Calero is a rebel leader who sits on the seven- man directorate of the Nicaragua Democratic Force (FDN), the largest and most organized of the Contra factions. |
| Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) The next most influential Contra group is the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) whose troops are led by Eden Pastora, the Sandinista hero of the 1979 revolution, and Alfonso Robelo, former moderate member of the Sandinista junta. |
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