Latin America: In the Shadow of the US | Ep 2 – Wars

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The 1980s bring revolutionary wars, CIA-backed conflict and the violent birth of a new democratic era.

Episode 2: Wars begins with Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution, which promised egalitarian transformation through literacy crusades. But civil war erupted as United States President Ronald Reagan’s administration covertly backed the Contra rebels, plunging the nation into turmoil and suffering.<...

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