With the blue and white United Nations flag flying over a sun-drenched parade ground, 260 Nicaraguan rebels surrendered their weapons to a U.N. peacekeeping force Monday. It was the first time ...

Nicaragua: The Contras’ Revived Challenge. 8 minute read. Jill Smolowe. April 18, 2005 12:00 AM EDT. A fter months of lying low, Nicaragua’s contra rebels are on the attack once more.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Latin America’s first elected female president whose stunning victory at the polls in 1990 helped bring an end to eight years of a civil war in Nicaragua that ...

Anti-Sandinista forces began to withdraw Tuesday after three days of heavy fighting in northeastern Nicaragua. The operation was called the U.S.-backed contras` largest and most successful ever ...

It was at the end of January 1982 that the Contras, with help from the CIA, approved a plan to take the war against the Sandinistas beyond the Honduran border to Nicaraguan territory.

But, much like Garmendia, they remain an important symbol and voice for Nicaragua’s anti-Sandinistas. The group now calling itself the Commander 3-80 Force takes its name from a Contra unit active ...

LA LIBERTAD, Nicaragua — Juana Membreno, 47, will never forget the night last Dec. 7 when her family was roused from sleep by a rain of bullets over their wooden shack and voices shouting for… ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Adolfo Calero, who led the largest force of U.S.-backed Contra rebels against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government in the 1980s, has died at age 81.

Adolfo Calero, one of the main leaders of the U.S.-backed rebels against Nicaragua's leftwing Sandinista government in the 1980s who became entangled in the Iran-Contra scandal, has died at age 81 ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Adolfo Calero, who led the largest force of U.S.-backed rebels against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government in the 1980s and found himself entangled in the Iran-Contra scand… ...

Violeta Chamorro, who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party, has died.