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grave of Benjamin Linder, an internationalist from Portland,
Oregon, who was killed by La contra (in English,
the "Contras") in the counterrevolutionary
movement against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua,
1987. The Contras were organized and funded by the United
States government, which was opposed to the Nicaraguan
Revolution that came to power in 1979 and was voted
out of office in 1990 after a long and bloody conflict.
Photo, ©2004, taken with the camera of
Bryan Moore, who appears in the plaid shirt on the right. |