Examples of Sandinista in the following topics:
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- In the early 1980s, Nicaragua was governed by a largely Marxist-inspired group, the Sandinistas.
- Reagan, however, overlooked the legitimate complaints of the Sandinistas and believed that their rule opened the region to Cuban and Soviet influence.
- A year into his presidency, convinced it was folly to allow the expansion of Soviet and Communist influence in Latin America, he authorized the CIA to equip and train a group of anti-Sandinista Nicaraguans known as the Contras (contrarevolucionários or “counter-revolutionaries”) to oust Ortega from power.
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- American interventions during this period included the usurping of the socialist regime in Chile, the overthrow of socialist president Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and the radical Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
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- Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista and anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua
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- American interventions during this period included the usurping of the socialist regime in Chile, the overthrow of socialist president Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and the radical Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
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- The U.S. then used the funds from the sales to finance the anti-Sandinista and anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua.
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- The armed forces also took power in Argentina in 1976, and then supported the 1980 "Cocaine Coup" of Luis García Meza Tejada in Bolivia, before training the "Contras" in Nicaragua, where the Sandinista National Liberation Front, headed by Daniel Ortega, had taken power in 1979, as well as militaries in Guatemala and in El Salvador.