Sandinista Revolution event
also: overthrown by the Sandinistas' Liberation Front, Sandinista takeover, revolution, fall of Somoza
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In Nicaragua that same year, the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship was overthrown by the Sandinistas' Liberation Front, which launched agrarian reform, which pissed off United Fruit because they were going to take their land back that they ha…
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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…
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who in 1987 was murdered and it sparked an uprising that eventually toppled Somoza. Norwin Menendez, record show, was a partner of Valletta Chamorro in a finance company before the revolution. So, and the guy that's like going to weddings w…
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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…
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El Tigre Medina, the counterinsurgency expert who'd ravaged the northern mountains routing out the Sandinistas. Medina was head of G4, the officer in charge of all supplies for the National Guard at the end of the war. He fled Managua with …
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The CIA, in a recent declassified 1986 cable, described Menendez as the kingpin of narcotic traffickers in Nicaragua prior to the fall of Somoza. The agency would later describe him as the Cali cartel's representative in Nicaragua. And they…
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a fellow ambassador. In light of Emundo's murder, Norwin figured the Sandinistas probably had the same fate in mind for him, and he left Nicaragua in early June of 1979. He caught a flight to El Salvador, went to Ecuador for a while, then t…
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Menendez had homes in Florida and Alabama. He said, but he spent most of his time in neither of those homes, but in San Francisco, where all the cocaine was being distributed. He started buying up property there in 1978. After the Sandinist…
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that Uncle Sam was just repaying him for his former services or his current ones. Menendez told the Justice Department that he met with CIA agents shortly after the Sandinista takeover of Nicaragua to teach them how to cross his country's b…
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cooperated Hassan's statement in a sealed search warrant affidavit. Filed in May of 1992, DEA agent Chuck Jones wrote, quote, Blanton fled Nicaragua after Somoza regime was deposed. Blanton had been a cocaine trafficker in Nicaragua prior t…