The Contras were numerous right-wing rebel organizations supported and sponsored by the United States that operated in Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government that came to power in 1979 following the Nicaraguan Revolution.
A proxy war is one in which a great power initiates a conflict but does not become engaged.
After a long period of social instability and political turmoil between the opposition-controlled Congress and the socialist President, as well as an economic war ordered by US President Richard Nixon, a group of military officers led by General Augusto Pinochet seized control in a coup on September 11, 1973, effectively ending.
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