Jose Mercurio Estrada person
also: Mercurio, Macario, Mercario
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▶ 8:47
This is something that Blanton had said. Blanton had invested his L.A. drug profits in a string of companies, sometimes in partnerships with other Nicaraguan exiles that were living in Miami. One of them was Jose Mercurio Estrada. He had be…
▶ 9:14
who was also Blanton's immigration lawyer. Like Blanton, Mercurio was deeply involved in the Contra network in Miami. He worked to get Contra's travel papers and permits to come into the United States. They also had set up a bunch of nonpro…
▶ 9:45
Contra here in Miami, working in Miami since 1980. He confirmed that he got here just before the revolution and had acquaintances.…
▶ 10:04
with people that had worked in the U.S. Embassy in Managua. So he was kind of like sponsored here into the United States as someone that was going to be able to help the CIA get people into the United States to set up this network is the bo…
▶ 10:36
had come to pass me some arms, like weapons. And it also said, he also went on to say that they were going to eliminate me in summary proceedings. The next day, he decided to seek asylum at the embassy in Colombia, which, as it turns out, w…
▶ 11:07
and attorney Carlos Izaca, a son-in-law of General Menendez, the guy that died a long time ago. Acasa was the personal attorney for Calero, who had been a CIA agent before 1979's revolution and would become one of the Contra's political lea…
▶ 11:38
and Macario escaped the country seven months after the revolution on the last day of February 1980. Macario's protector, Icaza, was publicly accused by the Sandinistas of being a CIA agent in 1983, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. H…
▶ 12:37
and served as a corporate lawyer for Norwin's suspected money launderer, Orlando Morella. And Morella is the guy that owned a series of different financial institutions in Miami that was laundering all of the cocaine money for the Nicaragua…
▶ 13:02
was appointed to a blue-ribbon commission by the Contras to look into newspaper allegations that the Contras were squandering U.S. humanitarian aid, so the fox in the henhouse. Another member of the Contra panel was accountant Rene Gonzalez…