United States and state-sponsored terrorism

Common card · No. 369078

The United States has provided support to terrorist organizations and has funded paramilitary organizations around the world. It has also provided assistance to authoritarian regimes that have used state terrorism as a tool of repression. American support for terrorists has been prominent in Latin America and the Middle East. For example, from 1981 to 1991, the United States provided weapons, training, and extensive financial and logistical support to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, who used terror tactics in their fight against the socialist Nicaraguan government. At various points the United States also provided training, arms, and funds to terrorists among Cuban exiles, such as Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles. Various reasons have been given to justify this support, including the "threat of communism" necessitating the destabilization of political movements that might have aligned with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, including popular democratic and socialist movements....

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