Horacio Perina person
also: Perina, Perino
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Horacio Perina trafficked
Norwin Menendez documented
“Karina Lanunez. He was referred to as La Barra, the Menendez lieutenant who had been supplying cocaine to Caprese and Zavala in San Francisco and funneling the profits to the Contra Army under the command of Chavarro. In August or September…”
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Trujillo was acquitted after convincing the jury that he was an addict and it was all his own cocaine. Can't make it up. Nonetheless, the raid provided the Costa Rican authorities with a break they needed to land an even bigger fish in the …
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Karina Lanunez. He was referred to as La Barra, the Menendez lieutenant who had been supplying cocaine to Caprese and Zavala in San Francisco and funneling the profits to the Contra Army under the command of Chavarro. In August or September…
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had approached Chamorro and asked the Contra leader to help move drugs into the U.S. Neither Chamorro nor the CIA's response to Menendez's overture was disclosed. Through Pereira's drug trafficking activities, although his drug activities h…
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that they had a major dealer in their midst. According to Costa Rican paper, the Office of Investigation Agents had no idea who Purina was the day he put in his unexpected guest appearance at Sanchez's house. Once they made his acquaintance…
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They quickly learned that Pereira was one of the biggest narco traffickers to have operated in Costa Rica. The newspaper reported that the man behind nearly every major drug trafficking case in Costa Rica since 1981 with connections to Hond…
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During one conversation, a caller mentioned that Gonzalez was building a cocaine processing lab in Panama and hinted that he was kicking back $25 million a month to Panamanian authorities to do business there. Pereira's wiretaps were an int…
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Munkle memo mentioned the CIA cable. And basically, it was assumed that the Munkle was Augusto Munkle, a Contra supporter who had been detained in Miami with Pereira for currency violations during an FBI frogman case that we talked about a …
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In a 1990 interview with a journalist, Gonzalez said that Horacio Pereira had offered him money to help finance a new contra movement he started when he broke with Pastora. It was referred to as M3. Horacio Pereira earlier had loaned money …
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But we rejected this because Norwin Menendez and Sanchez were involved in drugs. And we didn't want to be involved in drugs. So everybody knows they're involved in drugs. Largely on the strength of the wiretap, Pereira was convicted of drug…
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The verdict was significant enough to attract the attention of CBS Evening News, which aired a brief report in June of 1986 on Pereira's trial and the undercover taps. The wiretap phones calls show that drug dealers have ties the highest le…
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Perera never served a day of his sentence. He was released on bail and disappeared. Menendez said his friend was chopped into tiny bits in Guatemala a few years later when he became embroiled in a dispute over a drug debt. The Costa Rican g…
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and Torrio Sanchez might have been expected to put a crimp in the cocaine trafficking in that small nation. After all, Costa Rica's biggest dealer, Pereira, was out of business. Gonzalez was on the run, and their supplier, Norwin Menendez, …
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that Spadafora was trying to unmask, Gonzalez. Somehow, Menendez's lieutenants got wind that Spadafora was planning, and they began devising a counterattack. During their investigation of Menendez's aide, Horacio Perina, the Costa Rican pol…
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So they're eavesdropping and listening to them plotting this guy's murder. Costa Rican newspaper obtained copies of the tapes and printed transcripts. One ploy Gonzalez and Perina battled around was paying a witness in one of the provinces …
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Now he's surrounded because he comes over here. He's finished, Gonzalez said. Yes, Perino replied. If he shows up over there, you'll get him. The district attorney in the Pandemanian province where Spadafora was murdered ordered Gonzalez ar…
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found in Zavala's nightstand. Remember they gave it back because it was for the Contras. It was reported that Zavala's claim from a prison cell in Arizona that he personally delivered about $500,000 in drug profits to the Contras in Costa R…
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and to know who to pay what when the drugs were sold. They were even of different qualities. He got proof in December 1981 when Zavala called him from Costa Rica and told him to catch the next plane down. Zavala wanted him to meet some frie…
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a hopeless drug addict spending large sums of his family's fortune on heroin, cocaine, women, and gambling. The Sandinistas seized what was left of his fortune. So he went to Costa Rica, where he became partners with Menendez in drugs. He s…
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had also been a business partner of Menendez before the revolution. Menendez said that they owned cattle and ranches together and that they had known each other since they were children. Pereira had owned the gambling clubs in Managua under…
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was the genesis of an effort to raise money for the Contras by selling drugs, although the original reason for the meeting was purely social. Cabreza said Sanchez and Perina raised the idea of selling cocaine as a means of fundraising for t…
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in the Zavala network. Although it was Sanchez and Perena's idea to raise the funds for the Contra by engaging drugs, Cabreza says it was Zavala who came up with the idea that Cabreza would serve as the go-between and basically run the netw…
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two other men to pick up two kilos of cocaine from Perea. But Perea was suddenly uncomfortable with the arrangement. And he basically said that he wanted to cut Zavala out because he didn't trust him. Now, Cabraza owes everything that he's …
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Capra insist that Capraza had to accept responsibility for the cash because the money belonged to help the Contras and not like the proceeds of it. Whatever the agreed amount percentage was, was going to go to the Contras after everybody go…
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That's crazy. So it says they made regular trips carrying money for the Contras. He told CIA investigators that on average, he earned $64,000 on each trip of his 20 trips to Central America. Although he also claims that another person once …
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FBI director in Washington. Well, they sent to the FBI director. So this is a quote. Savala sources of supply of the cocaine are Trulio Sanchez, Fernando Sanchez and Horacio Parina. All those are operating out of Costa Rica. As for Capraza,…
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had been established as Trujillo Sanchez, Fernando Sanchez, and Perillo of Costa Rica. So they know exactly where the cocaine's going, coming from. They know where it's going. And all of this is written down in the FBI. Though the FBI didn'…
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In the CIA files in late 1980, at the inception of the CIA's counter-revolutionary arrangement, the CIA identified Penal as the leader of the unnamed Contra group in Honduras and knew the Contra boss was a reported drug trafficker, describi…
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that Trujillo was involved in drug trafficking. Other Contras certainly did. Former Contra official Leonardo Rodriguez told UPI in 1986 that Trujillo sold 200 pounds of cocaine and received $6 million for it. The money Capresa took to Centr…
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was given to Perea and the FDN logistics officer by the name of Vega, who lived in Honduras. He assumed the money was being used to buy food and clothing for the newly formed Contra Gorillas. So, as you can see, this is crazy. I'm going to …