<span>The Contras were fighting the communists (Sandinistas) in Nicaragua in the 1980s.</span>
He had to deal with Britain meddling in American trade, he stated flatly that Britain was meddling with American trade not because that trade interfered with Britain 's "belligerent rights" but because it "frustrated the monopoly which she covets for her own commerce and navigation."
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they were weakened becuase they got weak
