Norwin Meneses

Though, after an investigation by the CIA to analyse the connections between these men and other individuals associated with drug trafficking, the CIA claims it had never had a relationship with Danilo Blandon or Norwin Meneses. However, Meneses says he was associated with the Contras.

Webb points out that the CIA said in 1985 that Vaughn “was said to be an associate of Nicaraguan narcotics trafficker Norwing [sic] Meneses Cantarero”—Norwin Meneses being a Contra-connected drug dealer (and DEA informant) who figured prominently in Webb's San Jose Mercury News Contra/crack ...

For instance, in 2013, at the National Archives annex in College Park, Maryland, I discovered a declassified “secret” U.S. law enforcement report that detailed how top Contra leader Adolfo Calero was casually associating with Norwin Meneses, described in the records as “a well-reputed drug dealer.

Webb's investigation revealed that Oscar Danilo Blandon, Norwin Meneses, and “Freeway” Rick Ross had been working with gangs in Los Angeles to distribute the cocaine, leading to speculation that the CIA had intentionally targeted black neighborhoods with the flow of drugs. The profits from the drug ...

In January 1983, police in Los Angeles arrested frogmen bringing 400 pounds of cocaine ashore from a Colombian freighter. But they missed their main target, the drug importer Norwin Meneses, who may have been tipped off by officials. In August 1986, a US Customs informant, Joseph Kelso, told his ...

This fascinating, compelling series outlined a malevolent network which helped fund the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contra forces with profits from the cocaine trade in California. The Nicaraguan supplier was a man named Norwin Meneses, who associated with top-level Contra leader Adolfo Calero.

... on-the-record interview with imprisoned drug lord Norwin Meneses (Andy Garcia). In relative terms, Meneses still lives high on the hog, enjoying the use of golf equipment in the prison yard, accoutered in a shabby version of his undoubted former flair and retaining the fulsome respect of the other inmates.

By Robert Parry. Nearly a decade before Gary Webb published his investigative series on cocaine trafficking by Nicaraguan Contra rebels, U.S. law enforcement received a detailed account of top Contra leader Adolfo Calero casually associating with Norwin Meneses, called “a well-reputed drug dealer” in ...

"Indeed, several law enforcement officers have complained publicly that actions targeted against [Nicaraguan drug king Norwin] Meneses were blocked by NSC officers in the Reagan administration and by the CIA." Given that the resulting crack cocaine epidemic in South Central LA fuelled gang violence ...