Oscar Reyes Zelaya person
also: Inspector Reyes, Reyes
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Assassination of Oscar Reyes Zelayaevent · 5Nicaraguan National Policeorganization · 3Norwin Menendezperson · 2Edmundo Menendezperson · 2Managuaplace · 2San Franciscoplace · 2Anastasio Somozaperson · 2Jamie Menendezperson · 2U.S. Customs Departmentorganization · 2Nicaraguacountry · 2United Statescountry · 1Pamela Castoniperson · 1U.S. Department of Justiceorganization · 1Pablo Zamora Mahlerperson · 1Rafael Cornejoperson · 1
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Norwin Menendez ordered_assassination_of
Oscar Reyes Zelaya documented
“who was a high-ranking customs official under Somoza. Norwin then arranged for Reyes' assassination. After the publicity died down, Norwin calmly resumed his smuggling ventures, but the FBI kept an eye on him. As Somoza's government teetere…”
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When Mundo and the National Guard as his protectors, Norwin appears to have literally gotten away with murder. In the spring of 1977, Norwin found himself under investigation by the chief inspector of the Customs Department. A particularly …
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According to press reports, Norwin first tried to get the annoying inspector off his tail by setting him up with an attractive woman in a Managua hotel in order to blackmail him. The woman, Pamela Castoni, then went to the police claiming t…
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and the sexual maneuver was used only to exacerbate the prosecution against Norwin. On the evening of June 2, 1977, the chief inspector got a phone call at his house, allegedly from a man who wanted to give him a payoff in order to drop the…
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Whoever it was in the alley shot Reyes three times in the stomach and throat, but he didn't complete the job. Bleeding profusely, the inspector was taken to the emergency room at the hospital in Managua. As he lied wringing on a cot, the dy…
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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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One of his San Francisco-based cocaine traffickers and his nephew, Jamie Menendez, who also was dealing cocaine in the Bay Area, backed up the story, testifying that Norwin was with them. So all the drug guys get together with the criminals…
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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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who was a high-ranking customs official under Somoza. Norwin then arranged for Reyes' assassination. After the publicity died down, Norwin calmly resumed his smuggling ventures, but the FBI kept an eye on him. As Somoza's government teetere…