What Are Guerilla Groups In Nicaragua?

Under the rule of the Sadanistas, conservative anti-communist groups are beginning to flee Nicaragua. These groups are forming guerilla units. Hundreds of rebels and supporters are trudging into southern Honduras based camps in a mass exodus. Their leaders say fewer than 2,000 fighters remain in Nicaragua. Guerilla warfare is a type of warfare fought in fast-moving, small-scale actions against orthodox military and police forces and on occasion, against rival insurgent forces, either independently or in conjunction with a larger political-military strategy.

These people refer to themselves as “Contras.” In the summer of 1980, crude organizations of fighters were seeking to start a counterrevolution. These disparate groups are comprised of