Written Assignment 1

Written Assignment 1

Introduction

Contra is the term used for the member of a counterrevolutionary force; these are the one which were sought to remove from power Nicaragua's left-wing Sandinista government. In the start the Central Intelligence Agency of United States were the trainers as well the fund aid givers for the group. These tactics were later criticized on an international level by the human-rights community (Contra, 2013, Martin, n.d.).

The real occurrence was that the Sandinistas have overthrown their violent and corrupt government. Reagan administration was the one which has actually presented Contras and they were declared as an army which comprises of freedom fighters who fighting adjacent to a totalitarian and dictatorship kind of Communist government (Blaauw, 2008).

The term Contras is used for the various rebellious groups which were opposing the  National Reconstruction government's Sandinista Junta, which were in the Nicaragua's state. These were the active group in the year 1979 till the 1990s. Out of all the other groups Nicaraguan Democratic Force renowned as FDN has emerged as one of the largest. In the year 1987 all of contra organizations were actually united this was at least in the nominal sense, in the Nicaraguan Resistance. In the starting time period the rebellious forces have received some of the decisive financial and military support by the United States. This was in the beginning by being complemented by the dictatorship in Argentine at that time. Later one Congress banned the support from United States in these regards and Reagan administration secretly started to aid contra (Lee & Daniel, 1987).

Discussion

Background

It can be said that in the real war of Contra, Brown was the one who opt for playing through the rules of anthropology to a certain extent than polemics. It was known all the way through that the Sandinista dictatorships which were provoked by the Marxists in Managua had actually, this was a serious opposition to the regulations by the Indians which belong o the Nicaraguan Atlantic Coast. In spite of that Brown was the one who became the real demonstrator of the contra movement in the north-central Nicaragua. He was also the one who reflected desires of the ancient Indian which were to be left alone. As tributary of the totalitarian Aztec empire, Nahuas have built such huge kind of cities which were erected extensive hierarchies and they also were the exporters of cocoa beans to Mexico which was done through using labor who were actually slaves (Schwartz, 2001).

For the period of the war which was against the government of Sandinista, there were so many human rights violations performed by Contras. Most of them were part of the systematic warfare strategy. These violations were often attempted to be downplayed by the supporters of Contra. Reagan administration was found to be engaged in a movement which was for altering the public opinion over the contras which was termed as “white propaganda" (Martin, n.d.).

Groups

Contras were not basically a very highly populated group, but comprises of three other distinct elements of the overall Nicaraguan society:

The first group was of ...