Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

In the Bahamas, where Somoza fled, he met with Stanford Technology point man and Bay of Pigs leader Chi Chi Quintero, and they agreed to continue the collaboration with STC, only now with the aim of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua rather than bolstering it. These counterrevolutionaries, or contras, became an obsession for the far right, which desperately feared the spread of Cuban influence onto the mainland.xiv