Donald Barrios person
also: Barrios
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Claims (2)
Donald Barrios member_of
Contras host_asserted
“who had killed in Nicaragua, you know, for the Somoza government. Barrios didn't say why he wanted Blanton to meet with him, but Blanton figured it had something to do with the Contras, because he, Barrios, was in the Contras.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 3:10
Donald Barrios member_of
Valito Barrios del Chamorro host_asserted
“They say Barrios was a relative of the former Nicaraguan president, Valito Barrios del Chamorro. And if you guys have not looked up the Chamorros in Nicaragua, you should. The widow of a crusading journalist, Pedro Chamorro.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 4:00
Mentions (9)
▶ 47:56
In 1984, he set up an import-export business, hello, in Miami with the help of Coral Gable's attorney and who had also handled several of Blanton's real estate purchases. He also was in business with the Major General Gestapo Medina and bus…
▶ 15:37
by the name of Donald Barrios, B-A-R-R-I-O-S. He also was an FDN Contra supporter who'd sent Blanton to fetch Norwin Menendez from LAX seven years earlier in 1980. Ricky Ross's former cocaine supplier, Henry Corrales, also owned a piece of …
▶ 1:37
Okay, sure. And the next thing he knows, he's selling cocaine instead of cars. As Blanton tells the story, his transformation occurred shortly after getting a call from a friend, you know, from Miami, the place where he stopped off before h…
▶ 2:07
told Blanton that someone wanted to meet him, a man that would be flying into L.A. His name was Norwin Menendez. Blanton was to meet him at the airport and listen to everything that he says. He had to talk to me about something, Blanton sai…
▶ 3:10
who had killed in Nicaragua, you know, for the Somoza government. Barrios didn't say why he wanted Blanton to meet with him, but Blanton figured it had something to do with the Contras, because he, Barrios, was in the Contras.…
▶ 3:32
In the Contra Revolution organization, you know, the one Blanton's actually sending money down to that he's intimately involved in. And for some reason, he has no clue why this guy wants to talk to him because he's the guy that they're send…
▶ 4:00
They say Barrios was a relative of the former Nicaraguan president, Valito Barrios del Chamorro. And if you guys have not looked up the Chamorros in Nicaragua, you should. The widow of a crusading journalist, Pedro Chamorro.…
▶ 5:01
After the Sandinista takeover, Donald Barrios reportedly became a financial angel to Sandinistas, to the dispossessed, sorry, I'm screwing this all up, to basically the people that were in exile from Nicaragua that had been formerly attache…
▶ 5:32
business partners with some of them, including at least two members of the Samosa General Staff and the owner of the largest pharmaceutical company in Nicaragua. And we know what pharmaceuticals do. At the same time, he called Blanton in L.…