| At the time, the US was covertly backing the contras, the counter-revolutionaries who opposed the Sandinistas. |
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| The movement to suppress counter-revolutionaries accelerated his ability to remove political opposition. |
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| Then he joined the counter-revolutionaries simply to learn they were funded by a corrupt government. |
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| Scrutiny of cadres' records was followed by a campaign, still under the banner of Rectification, to ferret out traitors and to eliminate counter-revolutionaries. |
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| His actions and decisions following the announcement of the constitutional declaration have enabled hordes of counter-revolutionaries to pour into Tahrir Square. |
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