Fighting the Contras

Published: Feb. 14, 2014, 9 a.m.

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*This programme contains distressing accounts of graphic violence.*

In the 1980s left-wing Sandinistas in Nicaragua were under attack from US-backed Contra rebels.

We hear a unique personal account from one former member of the Sandinista special forces, an elite unit involved in the brutal fight for control of the Central American country.

(Photo: AFP/GettyImages)

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