Juan Mata Ballesteros person
also: Mata, MADA
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Colombia deported
Juan Mata Ballesteros documented
“There was one trafficker the Colombians refused to extradite, Juan Mata Ballesteros, the Honduran billionaire whose airline, Stetco, was flying supplies for the Contras. Instead of turning Mata over to the U.S., the Colombians deported him …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 21:42
Juan Mata Ballesteros implicated_in
Enrique Kiki Camarena host_asserted
“To the north in Mexico, meanwhile, the DEA was fighting an ever more violent war with the cocaine cartels. In Mexico, in February 1985, star DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar was tortured and then murdered by the application of a Phillips …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 16:50
Juan Mata Ballesteros convicted_in
United States host_asserted
“were trained by the United States. Faced with this new pressure, Honduran authorities surrendered Mata. In a raid on Mata's ranch in April of 1988, the U.S. and Honduran law enforcement agents seized the drug kingpin and spirited him off to…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 17:47
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▶ 21:42
There was one trafficker the Colombians refused to extradite, Juan Mata Ballesteros, the Honduran billionaire whose airline, Stetco, was flying supplies for the Contras. Instead of turning Mata over to the U.S., the Colombians deported him …
▶ 14:58
members of the high command and its intelligence arm already saw cocaine trafficking as a very tempting route to riches. The powerful Honduran-based trafficker Juan Ramon Mata Ballesteros had financed a military coup in 1978. Then, through …
▶ 15:29
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. government hired Setco, a MADA-connected airline, to fly supplies to the Contra. The hiring occurred despite a DEA report that Setco was formed by an American businessman dealing with MADA and smuggling narcotics …
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But the DEA was hampered in its investigation of Mata's operation because the Reagan administration had closed the DEA's office in Honduras in 83. So with no regular in-country DEA agents, only the FBI's capture of the 763 pounds of cocaine…
▶ 16:50
To the north in Mexico, meanwhile, the DEA was fighting an ever more violent war with the cocaine cartels. In Mexico, in February 1985, star DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar was tortured and then murdered by the application of a Phillips …
▶ 17:18
murder finally stirred senior DEA agents to action. In the late 1980s, with the Contra War winding down, the DEA reportedly compiled a list of Honduran officials implicated in the drug trade. The list had the names of officers who had held …
▶ 17:47
were trained by the United States. Faced with this new pressure, Honduran authorities surrendered Mata. In a raid on Mata's ranch in April of 1988, the U.S. and Honduran law enforcement agents seized the drug kingpin and spirited him off to…
▶ 20:48
that had direct ties to the CIA Contra operation. And STETCO is one. We've talked about ocean hunters before. Vortex, the Hondoo, Carib have come up in some of the books that we've read. But I just wanted you to see. Here's the STETCO one. …