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fair, the Reagan administration responded by continuing to fund the war through a scheme
in which the CIA illegally sold weapons to Iran and diverted the proceeds to the Contras.
When the details were leaked, the infamous Iran-Contra affair blew up.
After many failed peace initiatives, the Costa Rican president, Oscar Arías Sánchez, fi-
nally came up with an accord aimed at ending the war that was signed in Guatemala City
in August 1987 by the leaders of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and
Honduras. Less than a year later, the first ceasefire of the war was signed by representat-
ives of the Contras and the Nicaraguan government at Sapoa, near the Costa Rican border.
Oliver North, co-architect of the Iran-Contra scheme and the man whom Ronald Reagan
called 'an American hero,' is now a TV host and video game consultant.
