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- Title
What You Know and Who You Know: Senator Jesse Helms, the Reagan Doctrine and the Nicaraguan Contras.
- Authors
Stead, Andrew
- Abstract
The article looks at U.S. foreign relations with Nicaragua in the 1980s, focusing on the role of U.S. Senator Jesse Helms in the development of the U.S. President Ronald Reagan administration policy of providing material support to the Contra insurgent group that was fighting against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua following the country's 1979 revolution. Topics include the Reagan Doctrine regarding U.S. opposition to the perceived expansion of communism.
- Subjects
NICARAGUA; NICARAGUA-United States relations; HELMS, Jesse, 1921-2008; COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES; AMERICAN military assistance; UNITED States politics &; government, 1981-1989; UNITED States foreign relations, 1981-1989; REAGAN, Ronald, 1911-2004; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
49th Parallel, 2014, Vol 33, p55
- ISSN
1753-5794
- Publication type
Article