ARDE Alianza Revolucionaria Democrática: Juniode 1985 No. 1 [Iran-Contra Affair]

[Miami] / [San Francisco]: ARDE, 1985. Offset. 8 ½ x 11 in. [8 pp.] Very good. Item #10506

Premiere issue of the American journal of the Nicaraguan Contras – formally known as ARDE, the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance of Nicaragua—the rightwing organization that waged guerrilla war in the southern front of Nicaragua against the ascendant Sandinista government.

The group is perhaps best known in the U.S. as the recipients of funds from the Reagan administration’s illegal arms trafficking and dark money scheme, popular known as the Iran-Contra affair. The Reagan administration illegally sold weapons to Iran and used the proceeds to fund the right-wing Contras and their insurgency against the leftist government of Nicaragua. The Iran-Contra affair would break on the international press more than a year later in the winter of 1986, implicating the highest members of the Executive branch, including Vice President George H.W. Bush (who later as President would issue sweeping pardons) and President Reagan himself. In this issue, ARDE issues a plea for help to the American government and people, alongside a “thank you” to President Reagan. 

An important firsthand record from one of the most high-profile instances of illegal American funding of war, violence, and terrorism in Latin America.

Not located in OCLC as of March 2026.

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