What did US involvement in Nicaragua reveal about the Reagan administration?

The Reagan administration secretly supported the Contra rebels fighting Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, even after Congress restricted U.S. aid to the Contras. The Iran-Contra affair revealed that officials were willing to bypass those legal limits to pursue their anti-Communist goals. Therefore, the best answer is “It was willing to operate outside the law to achieve its goals.”

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