Roger Mayorga person
also: former Sandinista intelligence officer, Mayorga
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Claims (6)
Roger Mayorga spied_on
Norwin Menendez host_asserted
“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 @ 1:01:24
Roger Mayorga spied_on
Enrique Miranda Jamie host_asserted
“Miranda was a different story. Mayorga dropped by Ivis's house and asked her mother, who knew nothing about their arrest, if he could talk to Ivis. Her daughter, she said, was in Mexico receiving medical treatment at the suggestion of her b…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:03:50
U.S. State Department removed_from_power
Roger Mayorga documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:28:05
Trump administration removed_from_power
Roger Mayorga documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:28:05
Roger Mayorga member_of
Sandinistas host_asserted
“According to Nicaraguan police officials, Menendez's relationship with the drug lords of Colombia began during the marijuana era in the 70s. And the story they tell of his first big deal was illustrative of his way of doing business. A guy …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 10:26
Roger Mayorga member_of
Nicaraguan National Police host_asserted
“who also headed up investigations for the Nicaraguan National Police Narcotics Unit. Mayorga says the drug kingpin's association with the Colombians began after a plane full of marijuana made an emergency landing at a ranch owned by Somoza.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 10:55
Mentions (26)
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Chief of Criminal Investigations for the Nicaragua National Police, believes Menendez was actually working for the CIA in Nicaragua, using his role as a DEA informant as a cover. They used Menendez in Costa Rica basically for money launderi…
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The FBI, however, had no problem believing it, and their thinking tracked with Roger Mayorga's, the former Sandinistan intelligence officer. Menendez was being protected because he was working for the CIA. In a remarkable 1988 cable to FBI …
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and then redirected to the United States. Many of them were sent to United States Air Force bases in Texas. In interviews, Miranda and the former Nicaraguan anti-drug czar, Roger Mayorga, who arrested Miranda, said that the U.S. Air Base wa…
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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…
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She was part of a special guard running the revolution that attacked the National Guard building. They were the worst missions, suicidal ones, but she could fight. I think every man who met her fell in love with her. Certainly, Miranda had.…
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and the Mexican police told him about their arrest, which they said resulted from a DEA tip. Mayorga might want to look into it, they suggested, because he could have a drug ring operating in Managua. When Mayorga learned who owned the van …
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Miranda was a different story. Mayorga dropped by Ivis's house and asked her mother, who knew nothing about their arrest, if he could talk to Ivis. Her daughter, she said, was in Mexico receiving medical treatment at the suggestion of her b…
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He was very nervous and denied everything. At that point, I decided to focus our investigation on him. Miranda unwittingly led the police to Frank Virgil, the former advertising man who allegedly dealt cocaine with Blanton in Los Angeles in…
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had just formed a new company in Managua in partnership with the major Colombian drug trafficker, Hector Roman Caravalle. Mayorga saw from the incorporation paperwork of the company, called PZPSA, that it had been put together by a prominen…
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of Norwin Menendez. The Chamorro government had recently returned it to Norwin Menendez. That's crazy. Mayorga surmised that Miranda was working for Menendez and Frank Virgil and that he suspected they were plotting to use the fishing compa…
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When his men excitedly returned from their stakeout with the news, Mayorga was dumbfounded. Viril was a senior agent with the USDA agent in Costa Rica. They had just met with Mayorga to discuss the idea of the DEA starting a formal cooperat…
▶ 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…
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No one else in government, especially not the DEA, would be informed about anything. Their agents were sworn to secrecy and was given little advance notice of any operation. The precautions paid off. On Sunday morning in early November 1991…
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I thought he was just trying to impress me, but he insisted it was true. And I said I would find out myself. That the evening of the raids, Mayorga called the Costa Rican DEA office to inform Villarreal of the arrest. But since it was Sunda…
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He wants more information. I asked him what his special interest was in the case. After getting some evasive answers, Mayorga said he provided Villarreal with the basic facts and waited for the American to tell him about Menendez's relation…
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When we arrested him and inside was the phone numbers to Ronald Lard, the DEA country attache in Costa Rica. I challenged Villarreal to explain this. He couldn't. When Mayorga told the DEA agent that his men had seen him during the Menendez…
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Managua drug traffickers who were in the process of bringing 725 kilos of cocaine into his country. And why hadn't the Nicaraguan police been informed? Villarreal simply lied, denying that he had met with the drug kingpin, even though there…
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Villarreal had met with Menendez two or three times in Managua, not just once. Yet Villarreal claims he can't remember any of those discussions. In the end, Villarreal placated Mayorga by providing him with some intelligence reports of Mene…
▶ 1:16:47
The cocaine Hernandez was taking north was not Norwin's, he said. It was Frank Vigil's. He theorized that Menendez ratted out the shipment to calm the DEA's concern that he was dealing on the side. Villarreal made, so he set her up, in othe…
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with Menendez, and they were going to set up the police department and the national police as accomplices in drug trafficking to rid the new Nicaraguan government of the holdovers from the Sandinista government. That's crazy shit. So, armed…
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were bothered by Menendez's lack of a criminal record, the court transcript showed. And they challenged Roger Mayorga on his public declaration that Menendez was a drug kingpin in Nicaragua and his country's representative of the Cali carte…
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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…
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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…
▶ 10:26
According to Nicaraguan police officials, Menendez's relationship with the drug lords of Colombia began during the marijuana era in the 70s. And the story they tell of his first big deal was illustrative of his way of doing business. A guy …
▶ 10:55
who also headed up investigations for the Nicaraguan National Police Narcotics Unit. Mayorga says the drug kingpin's association with the Colombians began after a plane full of marijuana made an emergency landing at a ranch owned by Somoza.…
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came to an understanding with the Colombians who own the aircraft. Mayorga said the pilots in the aircraft were allowed to leave, but the load of marijuana remained behind as quote-unquote evidence. Somehow the evidence got turned over to t…