In the 1980s, the U.S. Congress passed a law shutting down American support to the Contras in Nicaragua.
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- https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/excerpts-the-report-congressional-committees-investigating-the-iran-contra-affair (presidency.ucsb.edu)
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