Usually means: Nicaraguan rebels against Sandinista government.
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noun:  In the history of Nicaragua, the (Spanish: La contrarrevolución, the counter-revolution) the right-wing militias who waged anti-communist guerilla warfare against the Marxist régime of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and the government of the Junta of National Reconstruction, which assumed power after the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979.


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