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The Nicaraguan Resistance (Resistencia Nicaragüense, RN) was the last and arguably most successful effort to unify Nicaragua's rebel Contras into a single umbrella organization. It was established in May 1987, after the United Nicaraguan Opposition (UNO) floundered.

The RN had a 54-member assembly that elected a seven-member directorate. Five seats were allotted to parties, one was elected at-large, and the last was reserved for YATAMA, the Miskito Indian organization. The initial members were Adolfo Calero ( Conservative), Aristides Sánchez (Liberal), Alfonso Robelo ( Social Democrat), Azucena Ferrey ( Social Christian), Alfredo César (Southern Opposition Bloc), and Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, Jr. (at-large). The YATAMA seat remained vacant. The Reagan administration supported the guerrilla warfare during the Nicaraguan Resistance in the 1980s with the possibility of it being a threat to the U.S with organizing a guerilla army the "contras". ^[1]

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