in president james monroe with the state is going to fight to your pin coloring into some of these. rachel blackman's looks at one of the many cases of how the policy was used to justify washington's interventions in the western hemisphere on the rest of the well. the monroe doctrine just turned 200 years old, but its role as a tool of us foreign policy continues to be used to this day. to argue of us has the right to intervene in latin america as we continue our look at the doctrines of legacy. we turn to the way it was used in nicaragua during the iran contra affair. the scandal occurred back in the 1980s when the administration of ronald reagan secretly sold weapons to a wrong to fund the congress. a group of anti communist finders in the garage was president reagan initially signed an executive order in 1981 authorized a covert ca operation to support the right wing rebel group. the starter overs wrote the left defendant needs to a government. daniel ortega in nicaragua, i must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in central america that threatens the security of the united sta