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Contra Cross: Insurgency and Tyranny in Central America, 1979-1989

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Why does the US have such difficulty dealing with insurgency? A look back at the Central American wars of the 1980s sheds light at the problem. Contra Cross presents one young American officer’s journey through Central The usa’s violent decade of revolution and counterrevolution. Bill Meara began out as a teacher at a Catholic school in Guatemala, but he went on to grow to be one of fifty-five U.S. military advisers assisting the Salvadorans in their fight against communism. By the end of the decade, he used to be in the U.S. Foreign Service working as a liaison officer to the Nicaraguan contras. Meara used to be one of very few Americans to work on both sides of insurgency in the region: in El Salvador he supported efforts to defeat insurgents; with Nicaraguans he worked to keep an insurgency alive.

Contra Cross takes readers into the world of an American adviser struggling with cultural differences and human rights violations at the same time as trying to stay alive in murderous El Salvador. We sign up for Meara on dangerous helicopter rides into contra base camps at the Honduran-Nicaraguan border, and learn what it is like to be in a U.S. embassy under attack. From Special Forces school at Ft. Bragg, to lunch with Communist defectors in El Salvador, to a contra POW camp deep in the jungle, we get a taste of life at the cutting edge of The usa’s controversial Central The usa policy.

More than a number of war stories, Contra Cross explores the difficult moral and ideological issues of the Central American wars. Meara’s experiences with insurgency and counterinsurgency allow him to provide critically important insights on why the US has such difficulty dealing with ragtag armies of third-world rebels.

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