home.social

#contras — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #contras, aggregated by home.social.

  1. @CBCNews
    A LESSON FOR JOE #BIDEN: During the #Reagan Administration (I forget the exact year), he asked #Congress for money to send to "The #Contras" in El Salvador so they could buy weapons.

    Congress said, "No."

    Unwilling to take "No" for an answer, as "Commander-in-Chief", Saint Ronnie ordered military troops loaded down with as much weaponry & ammunition as they could carry to land on the beach, drop everything, and leave.

    Congress threw a fit, but couldn't do a thing to stop it. 🤔

  2. @jockr
    A BIT OF #TRIVIA: When the Democratically-controlled Congress told Pres. #Reagan that he could not send millions of dollars to the Nicaraguan #Contras for weapons, he side-stepped Congress by (ab)using his authority as "Commander-in-Chief of the military", ordered thousands of troops weighed down with as much weapons & ammunition as they could carry, land on the shore, dump it all on the beach, and leave.

    Congress then had no choice but to spend the money to replace all those lost arms.

  3. 1981-90: #Nicaragua

    "The United States has a long history of meddling in Nicaragua. Between 1912 and 1933, the U.S. military occupied the country. 

    "Between 1981 and 1986, President #RonaldReagan’s administration secretly and illegally sold arms to #Iran in order to fund #Contras, a group the #CIA had recruited and organized to fight the #socialist #Sandinista government led by #DanielOrtega. In 1986, details of the #IranContra Affair became public, resulting in congressional investigations.

    "#Ortega’s Sandinista government ended in 1990 with the election of opposition candidate #VioletaChamorro as president amid reports that the United States had provided funding to help her win."

    history.com/news/us-overthrow-

    #HumanRights#Covert#Corporatism#Corporatocracy#Corruption#Capitalism#Colonialism