Daniel Ortega person
also: Ortega, Daniel Nortega
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Claims (5)
Eugene Hassenfuss pardoned
Daniel Ortega documented
“For some reason, we keep focusing on Venezuela when we know that the actual source is Colombia. It's a narco state. Go ahead, SR. Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for attending today. Eugene Hasenfuss, when you were talking about him,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 1:07:13
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Daniel Ortega host_asserted
“So he gets convicted in Nicaragua and Daniel Ortega was under constant pressure by the U.S. government because of, you know, he he's in power. The entire Contra operation was to overthrow his government. He had been under he was Maduro back…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 1:08:20
Daniel Ortega released
Eugene Hassenfuss host_asserted
“and the corrupt family back in charge of Nicaragua. And he stood in the way. And so he used the release of Hasenfus as a diplomatic overture to the U.S. to say, you know, I'm not that bad guy. I don't want to be your enemy. And obviously, i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 1:09:17
Daniel Ortega funded
Sandinistas host_asserted
“Reagan's message in the intensive lobbying proved inadequate. The House of Representatives rejected the $100 million CIA program, as it had every other proposal of lethal assistance since the harbor mining incident. But now the Sandinistas …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 47:10
Daniel Ortega pardoned
Eugene Hassenfuss host_asserted
“Partly due to international pressure in Nicaragua and President Daniel Ortega's decision to use this case for diplomatic leverage. I don't quite understand what diplomatic leverage Ortega was expecting to get out of this. So, very interesti…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 1:07:53
Mentions (17)
▶ 2:01:27
Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening to anybody out in the world. I love you, Colonel Townsend. Oh my gosh. You have given my father hope. He lives in Costa Rica, but his very close friends are in Managua, Nicaragua. And Ortega has…
▶ 2:06:03
One of these days Ortega will not be alive because God, everybody goes to wherever they're going. Okay. Ortega has a son and that is their biggest, biggest battle. They're going to have to get the United States to not involve themselves in …
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Partly due to international pressure in Nicaragua and President Daniel Ortega's decision to use this case for diplomatic leverage. I don't quite understand what diplomatic leverage Ortega was expecting to get out of this. So, very interesti…
▶ 1:08:20
So he gets convicted in Nicaragua and Daniel Ortega was under constant pressure by the U.S. government because of, you know, he he's in power. The entire Contra operation was to overthrow his government. He had been under he was Maduro back…
▶ 1:08:50
Everything that has been done to Maduro, the economic isolation, the constant coups through USAID, the isolation, all of the current day operations to attack Maduro, whether you agree with him or not, I'm not even getting into that. That's …
▶ 1:09:17
and the corrupt family back in charge of Nicaragua. And he stood in the way. And so he used the release of Hasenfus as a diplomatic overture to the U.S. to say, you know, I'm not that bad guy. I don't want to be your enemy. And obviously, i…
▶ 1:09:45
because the CIA continued to attack Nicaragua, simply because they didn't control Ortega. Well, it seems to me they got more hot water out of letting him go and sending him back to the United States, because Hossenfuss, when he got back to …
▶ 1:10:14
Of course, he lost that. Yeah, you can't sue the CIA. I mean, it seems to me that the CIA wouldn't have wanted him back. Well, but they didn't have any control over Ortega. And it's likely that Ortega thought that he'd be a bigger thorn in …
▶ 4:54
And he found himself, Felix Rodriguez, that is, down in Honduras and El Salvador during this period of time. So that's a connection for us. Okay, the Nicaraguans hated Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas almost as much as the Cuban exiles hat…
▶ 48:57
In February of 85 and again later, Reagan called the Contras our brothers. In March, he termed Calero's crew as morally equivalent to the founding fathers. And he declared that we owe them our help. Later, he spoke of a Soviet beachhead in …
▶ 47:10
Reagan's message in the intensive lobbying proved inadequate. The House of Representatives rejected the $100 million CIA program, as it had every other proposal of lethal assistance since the harbor mining incident. But now the Sandinistas …
▶ 5:12
that we do these covert operations for anyway. So in Central America, Casey found the perfect case to work with his new organization. Two countries, Nicaragua, where the quote unquote communist, hold on, let me bring Bridget back up, who we…
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Ortega that had been part of the Sandinistas that moved into Costa Rica. And if you guys remember, that is the guy that would not take any drug money that had been laundered for weapons to arm his people. He didn't want to be in an effort w…
▶ 8:47
Samosa with Ortega. So he didn't want to be in the same clump with them. The problem for the CIA was the National Guard's been sucked and they really needed the other guy because that guy knew how to fight because they had actually won and …
▶ 19:01
They have to qualify. It's not just bad enough to be a Sandinista. Movement under Daniel Ortega had come to power after overthrowing Somoza in 1979. And the other country of significant note at this time is El Salvador, where what we're tol…
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When the focus of U.S. covert action paramilitary attention changed from Cuba to Southeast Asia, Laos to Iran, then back to Central America, where CIA paramilitary operations began in the 1950s, the covert intelligence community adopted the…
▶ 10:59
Ortega. But with the Boland Amendment, the agency and NSC ran into problems with finance. This was solved in the same manner as financing the Laotian campaign, covertly. In Laos during the 60s and 70s, a huge cartel developed around opium t…