contras
n · noun
Form of contra , plural of contra.
Simple meaning
The the right-wing militias who waged anti-communist guerilla warfare against the Marxist régime of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and the government of the Junta of National Reconstruction.
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n
In the history of Nicaragua, the (Spanish: La contrarrevolución, the counter-revolution) the right-wing militias who waged anti-communist guerilla warfare against the Marxist régime of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and the government of the Junta of National Reconstruction, which assumed power after the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979.
noun
A Nicaraguan counterrevolutionary guerrilla force from 1979 to 1990; it opposed a left-wing government, with support from the United States
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