Hands off Nicaragua!
Hands off Nicaragua!
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- Description
- A homemade poster protesting US aid to the Contras in Nicaragua. The United States government supported the Contras, right wing groups that opposed the Socialist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government. The Sandinistas were viewed as an economic and security threat to the United States. The contras downplayed various human rights violations and use of terrorist tactics especially during the Reagan Administration. Congress banned further support of the Contras, but the Reagan administration continued aid through what is now known as the Iran-Contra Affair.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Poster
- referenced
- Reagan, Ronald Wilson
- referenced
- Nicaragua
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- red, white, blue, yellow (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 20 in x 14 in; 50.8 cm x 35.56 cm
- ID Number
- 1983.0545.11
- accession number
- 1983.0545
- catalog number
- 1983.0545.11
- Credit Line
- Harold W. Ellis
- subject
- Protest and Civil Disobedience
- History, Reform Movements, Black, Civil Rights
- Latin America
- Central America
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Political History, Reform Movements Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Princeton Posters
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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