Overtaken at times by distant reports from Sandinista rifles and mortars, a column of contra guerrillas snaked single file over open green highlands and made camp at a deserted farm. Before a cold ...

Few ordinary Americans still consider the contras, the Nicaraguan anti-Communist rebels of the 1980s, much of a hot topic. But American leftists, especially among the Democrats of Washington, D.C., ...

A convicted drug kingpin and a former contra leader told Congress separately Thursday that they knew drug profits were used to ship arms to the contra rebels fighting to oust the Nicaraguan government ...

Alan Maass recounts the background to a movie about reporter Gary Webb and the slander campaign against him for exposing the 1980s contra-cocaine connection. POLITICAL SCANDALS are often remembered in ...

In late 1986, Washington was rocked by revelations that the Ronald Reagan administration had illegally aided a stateless army known as the contras in Central America. Thus began the Iran Contra ...

At the end of Nicaragua's civil war, Juan Gregorio Rodriguez traded his life as a Contra rebel for that of auto mechanic in Florida. He kept in touch with other rebels and supported their political ...

Despite congressional restrictions, the Reagan administration has continued secretly to assist anti-Sandinista rebels in finding weapons and plotting military strategy through a network of private ...

Seven pairs of stainless-steel pins connected to a circular metal frame penetrate Egberto Jiron’s left calf. The pins hold together pieces of bone shattered Sept. 10 when grenade fragments ripped into ...