Edmundo Menendez person
also: Edmundo, General Edmundo Menendez, Mundo, Edmundo Menendez Cantario, Colonel Edmundo Menendez Cantario, Edmundo Menendez, Emundo Menendez, Emundo
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Claims (4)
Edmundo Menendez secretly_owned
Managua host_asserted
“Nicaraguan hotels that allow patrons to drive their cars into shielded carports so they can't be seen walking into hotel rooms. Some hideaways are usually used for hookers and mistress. However, they had learned this particular one was used…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:06:15
Edmundo Menendez member_of
Nicaraguan National Police host_asserted
“In Samosa's Nicaragua, the Managua Police Department was a branch of the National Guard because, of course, they were. The National Guard officer who commanded the Managua police for many years was Colonel Edmundo Menendez Cantario, Norwin'…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 11:24
Edmundo Menendez assassinated
People's Guerrilla Army host_asserted
“in Guatemala City, catching three bullets in his back. Two days later, as he clung to life at a medical center, a revolutionary group, the People's Guerrilla Army, claimed credit for the assassination. The ECP's communique described Menende…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 26:39
Edmundo Menendez member_of
Guatemalan Army host_asserted
“counterinsurgency operations all over Central America for the CIA. Menendez Cantarero enjoyed special privileges amongst Guatemalan authorities and army commanders. Exploiting his ambassadorial position in Guatemala as a smokescreen, he act…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 27:08
Mentions (19)
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like any CIA agent would. Menendez and his family moved back to their old mansion on the outskirts of Managua, and he began reclaiming all of his holdings valued at $12 million that had belonged to him and his assassinated brother, Edmundo.…
▶ 1:06:15
Nicaraguan hotels that allow patrons to drive their cars into shielded carports so they can't be seen walking into hotel rooms. Some hideaways are usually used for hookers and mistress. However, they had learned this particular one was used…
▶ 11:24
In Samosa's Nicaragua, the Managua Police Department was a branch of the National Guard because, of course, they were. The National Guard officer who commanded the Managua police for many years was Colonel Edmundo Menendez Cantario, Norwin'…
▶ 12:27
in creating Menendez's criminal empire can't be overstated. The National Guard, which when one researches it, called one of the most totally corrupt military establishments in the world. And we trained them, by the way. It was permeated wit…
▶ 15:57
was closest to Edmundo. He was known as Mundo, for short, who was one of his favorite generals. In 1960, Mundo, who'd been trained in irregular warfare by the School of Americas in Panama, you know, that's probably why they call it a death …
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Those campaigns killed key members of the Sandinistas and crippled the guerrilla movement for years. Later, Somoza gave Mundo the National Guard Choices Plum control of the Managua police, a perch from which a man was so inclined, if he was…
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When it came to making profit off of any vice, quote, you have to realize that you did a lot of things in your career in the National Guard and you progressed up through the ranks. So you might have been a lot of things, unquote, explained …
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had in his military career. Then he retired, and they made him a diplomat. He's a mafia guy. Under Mundo's watchful eye, Managua became an open city for Brother Norwin, who by the late 1970s owned discotheques, VIP clubs, drive-in whorehous…
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Protect me, Reyes cried. This is Norwin. Norwin Menendez sent away to kill me. Reyes died a short time later. Norwin was arrested and jailed on suspicion of murder. But after a quote-unquote rigorous and exhaustive investigation ordered by …
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just as the dying inspector had claimed. In 1986, federal prosecutors in San Francisco debriefed Edmundo Menendez's son, Herrero, who informed them that during the Somoza regime, Norwin Menendez smuggled weapons, silencers, and video equipm…
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Norwin's political connections in Nicaragua didn't do any of it. And it would not be the last time that the office would exhibit such odd reluctance to tackle the Menendez crime family. You know, because they're in on it. One longtime Contr…
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that it may have triggered his heart attack in July of 1977, after which he went off to the U.S. to recuperate. Edmundo soon left the police department and was promoted to brigadier general and retired from the National Guard. Somoza sent h…
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in Guatemala City, catching three bullets in his back. Two days later, as he clung to life at a medical center, a revolutionary group, the People's Guerrilla Army, claimed credit for the assassination. The ECP's communique described Menende…
▶ 27:08
counterinsurgency operations all over Central America for the CIA. Menendez Cantarero enjoyed special privileges amongst Guatemalan authorities and army commanders. Exploiting his ambassadorial position in Guatemala as a smokescreen, he act…
▶ 27:37
between the Guatemalan Army and the Nicaraguan National Guard, and also between Somoza and the Guatemalan government. They're both CIA stooges. He's just their go-between. He coordinated political repression for all of Central America and t…
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They claimed that the ambassador was gunned down to show solidarity with the struggle of the Sandinistas. The Sandinistas never forgave my brother Emundo for the guerrillas activity. Emundo Menendez lingered for another 15 days before dying…
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Menendez's relationship with the U.S. government had some questions. The CIA has refused to disclose any information about him. Not that they don't have it. It's sealed for national security reasons. The State Department incredibly has clai…
▶ 25:40
were all approved by the CIA. That's in his affidavit. As luck would have it, the CIA selected another one of Norwin Menendez's friends to assist Bermudez in running the FDN. His name was Aristides Sanchez. He was also a wealthy landowner w…
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Gonzalez from San Jose, Costa Rica, told of the results of a debriefing of a confidential informant. Ainsworth's heart sank as he read it. The informant related that Menendez Costasero, Edmundo's younger brother, was presently residing in S…