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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contra leader in charge of the northern front of the covert war against Nicaragua insisted, somewhat implausibly, given the information leaking out in Washington, that "no U.S. citizen ever has been involved" in the mining of Nicaraguan ports. At a press conference in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, leader of the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Front (F.D.N.), said that his organization reserved the right to undertake similar actions in the future. The aim, said Calero, was to halt the massive flow of Soviet bloc weapons to the Sandinistas and, only incidentally, to prevent a portion of that arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mysterious Help from Offshore? | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

Kissinger and company met with Calero and with Guillermo Ungo, the political leader of El Salvador's rebel coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Time of Trials for Foreign Policy | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...Guard. But the presence of ex-guardsmen in the F.D.N.'s military command has allowed the Sandinistas A hit-and-run to paint the contras as reactionaries who only want to bring back the dictatorship. Last week, in an effort to improve its image, the F.D.N. named Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, former president of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce, as its president and commander in chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Dangerous Game | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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