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also: Danielle Blanton, Blanton, Daniello, Shepita Blanton, Oscar Danilo Blanton, Danilo Blanton, Daniello Blanton, Danello, Ross, Dinello, Danilo Blandón, Oscar Danilo Blanton Reyes, Danella Blanton, Danilo, Blandon, Bludgingo

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Claims (6)

Oscar Danilo Blandón member_of Somoza family host_asserted
“contracts from the Nicaraguan government and with the U.S. So again, very important connections. Daniello and Chapita Blanton were plugged into every aspect of the power structure in the Somoza dictatorship. They were benevolent only to loy…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb @ 4:44
Oscar Danilo Blandón funded Nicaraguan National Police host_asserted
“One of his firms had a lucrative contract to supply American food to the Nicaraguan National Guard. And the Nicaraguan National Guard is kind of a misnomer. It's basically the control mechanism for Samosa to control the entire country. They…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb @ 3:51
Oscar Danilo Blandón member_of Democratic Force of Nicaragua host_asserted
“he would be in trouble if he went back home because at this point we had already started calling the Sandinistas communist. If Blanton's recollection is correct, his little Los Angeles group was one of the first flickerings of an organized …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb @ 32:43
Oscar Danilo Blandón funded Contras host_asserted
“You know, the terrorists that we trained unleashed in the United States. They had meetings every week. And in 1980 to 81, we had raised money for the Contras. When it began, he said, his group was not officially connected to anyone. And I'v…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb @ 31:39
Oscar Danilo Blandón funded Eden Pastora documented
“Pastora said he met Blanton during a trip to L.A. in late 1984. Marcos Aguardo confirmed this and said he had accompanied Pastora to the meeting. Both men agreed that Blanton provided cash, according to Pastora, some $6,000 to Pastora and $…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 36:44
Oscar Danilo Blandón funded Marcos Aguirre documented
“Pastora said he met Blanton during a trip to L.A. in late 1984. Marcos Aguardo confirmed this and said he had accompanied Pastora to the meeting. Both men agreed that Blanton provided cash, according to Pastora, some $6,000 to Pastora and $…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 36:44

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The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12
▶ 36:15 Pastora said Danielle Blanton popped up waving cash. Pastora knew Blanton from before the Sandinista Revolution when Blanton headed the pro-Samosa student group in college. We knew of him as a man who had always had money, Pastora said. In …
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12
▶ 36:44 Pastora said he met Blanton during a trip to L.A. in late 1984. Marcos Aguardo confirmed this and said he had accompanied Pastora to the meeting. Both men agreed that Blanton provided cash, according to Pastora, some $6,000 to Pastora and $…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12
▶ 37:13 in Costa Rica, where Pastora lived rent-free for several years. Blanton told the CIA that he could have charged Pastora, but he didn't. The only time Daniello came to Costa Rica was for parties and to meet with Menendez. It was around this …
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12
▶ 37:40 We knew that everybody around Pastora was involved in cocaine, he testified. We knew it from November 1984 forward, and we reported it. Pastora summoned Blanton, assumed Blanton was a successful car dealer, not a drug dealer, and he thought…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12
▶ 38:37 was frequently quoted in the Miami Herald and other papers as Pastora's spokesman from 1984 to 1985. He was a close friend of Blanton from childhood and Pastora's former aide, Carol Prado. I also knew them from childhood. They were very ric…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12
▶ 39:04 Sabario was also acquainted with Blanton's spooky associate, Ronald Lister. Lister told the CIA that he had traveled to Hialeah, Florida sometime in 82 or 83 and met with the Contra members named Dr. Sabario in an effort to sell military su…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12
▶ 39:31 surveillance detection, blah, blah, blah. In 1992, court records show Sabario posted part of Shepita Blanton's bond after she was arrested on her drug trafficking charges in San Diego. The doctor did not return phone calls inquiring about h…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12
▶ 40:03 This is from Pastora. Blanton and Sabario vanished from my ranks when it became clear that I was not willing to march to the CIA's tune. Blanton's interest in helping ARDE always mystified him because I knew he had been with the FDN from th…
The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12
▶ 49:49 Their hesitancy was based on going deep inside of Nicaragua. They would not have Costa Rica to be able to run back to. Blanton's drug-dealing friends, the Torres brothers, told L.A. County Sheriff's investigators that during the height of t…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 1:53 who would help spread it across Los Angeles, was touching down in LAX. It had been a rough couple of weeks for him. His name was Oscar Danilo Blanton Reyes. He was 27 years old and a refugee from the Nicaraguan Civil War. Not long before he…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 4:17 They are a national police force. You cannot think of them as being part of a military like we think about our National Guard. They are literally the jackboots that kept Somoza in power. So he basically is making money off of providing them…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 6:11 As Danilo Blanton stepped off the jet from Miami into the vast terminal of LAX, he found himself jobless, broke, and homeless. Not technically homeless. He had already sent his kids, as we'll find out, and his wife to LA. She had family the…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 16:36 Departures from the country by land or by sea were impossible because of the dangers of raids. The Danilo Blanton managed to figure out how to get out because he was part of the group. Blanton's father, Julio, owned the land on which was bu…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 22:00 Danella Blanton decided that he had hung around long enough. He had a three-year-old and a pregnant wife. It was time that Blanton fell in with a Red Cross convoy on its way to the airport and put his wife and daughter on an airplane for Lo…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 23:00 namely get four seats on jetliners bound for the United States, was never made clear because the U.S. government sealed those records. Years later, Blanton would claim that he couldn't get a ticket directly to Los Angeles for himself. He co…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 24:01 We know what those were. As he tells it, he stayed with a friend. He got a job washing cars. Anybody believe that? Until he could save enough money, even though he had $5,000, to get to Los Angeles. He rejoined his family in Los Angeles in …
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 29:04 When Blanton was working for the Torres brothers, they had not yet begun dealing cocaine, although everybody else said they were. They didn't take them long. By 1982, they were two of the more significant drug dealers in Los Angeles. Blanto…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 29:38 Chepita was getting bigger with their second child every day and he was struggling to pay bills. He started a new job with another car lot, Roca Used Cars, and was also hustling rental cars. According to his friend, Frank Vigil, Blanton was…
The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 3 by Gary Webb
▶ 32:43 he would be in trouble if he went back home because at this point we had already started calling the Sandinistas communist. If Blanton's recollection is correct, his little Los Angeles group was one of the first flickerings of an organized …
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2
▶ 8:25 It goes on and says, the Dark Alliance series recounts how Ross began peddling small quantities of cocaine in the early 1980s and rapidly grew into one of the largest cocaine dealers in Southern California until he was convicted of federal …
The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2
▶ 8:56 Two individuals with ties to the FDN, one group comprising the Nicaraguan Contras. And the FDN, just for a reminder, is the former Samosan National Guard element that had been actively involved in drugs for decades. Blanton and Menendez rep…