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Rene Vivas person

also: Nicaraguan National Police Commander, Vivas

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U.S. State Department removed_from_power Rene Vivas documented
“Almost single-handedly, an underpaid middle-aged Nicaraguan policeman had in 18 months done something that the entire U.S. government, with all of its bike satellites, international wiretapping, and an army of drug agents, had never been ab…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:27:35
Trump administration removed_from_power Rene Vivas documented
“Almost single-handedly, an underpaid middle-aged Nicaraguan policeman had in 18 months done something that the entire U.S. government, with all of its bike satellites, international wiretapping, and an army of drug agents, had never been ab…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:27:35

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The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22
▶ 1:00:55 and relegated himself to helping the DEA tail Blanton, surveilling his meetings with the Torres brothers. I actually had a better case against him if it would have come about, Hodge said. I think they just let him run. In stark contrast to …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22
▶ 1:01:24 The chief of the Nicaraguan National Police said Commander Roger Mayorga, the head of the criminal investigation section, were well acquainted with Norwin and his family and the work that he had done for Somoza and the Contras. Mayorga, a s…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22
▶ 1:01:51 Vivas was the earliest member of the Sandinista underground. He had known Norwin Menendez since he was a teenager. Through his attempts to infiltrate anti-Samosa groups, they were itching for a reason to arrest him. In November 1990, a whit…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22
▶ 1:09:47 and were trying to infiltrate the Nicaraguan National Police. Mayorga went to see his boss, Nicaraguan National Police Commander Rene Vivas, who shared his concerns. Checking with sources in Costa Rica, they learned that Menendez and Villar…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22
▶ 1:13:56 prison outside of Managua to personally take charge of Menendez's interrogation. He found the trafficker relaxed, almost smug. He said he wasn't worried about me because he had the backing of a much higher superpower, Vivas recalled. He sai…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22
▶ 1:27:35 Almost single-handedly, an underpaid middle-aged Nicaraguan policeman had in 18 months done something that the entire U.S. government, with all of its bike satellites, international wiretapping, and an army of drug agents, had never been ab…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22
▶ 1:28:05 the Nicaraguan National Police Commander, Vivas. Roger Mayorga, who by then had begun looking into Danielle Blanton's relationship with Menendez's drug ring and its money laundering in Central America, was fired too. Menendez, meanwhile, wa…