The "Contras" were
a. Nicaraguan revolutionaries who supported the Sandinistas.
b. the group of United States congressional opponents to the Reagan policy in South America.
c. counterrevolutionaries financed by the Reagan administration to oppose the leftist Sandinistas.
d. El Salvadoran revolutionaries.
e. Cuban terrorists organized by Castro to avenge the Bay of Pigs.
ANSWER:
c
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