These groups ultimately were supported by the U.S. government and became known as the Contras. The Contras cause ultimately met with success when. in a stunning upset. Violeta Chamorro defeated the Sandinistas in national elections. But the war. combined with a United States embargo on trade and a series of natural disasters. ruined the economy and added to the unrest that endangered many lives. Approximately 126.000 Nicaraguans fled their homeland. came to the United States. and applied for asylum between 1981 and 1991. That was a quarter of all our asylum applications during that time period. During that same time. El Salvador experienced a brutal civil war which left tens of thousands dead.
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