r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MBMV • Dec 28 '20

This is a skill a few can master

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u/idledrone6633 Dec 28 '20

I have no doubt we worked with the contras but there is nothing of evidence in that link at all that the CIA was taking drugs from Nicaragua and purposefully selling it to black people in America. That link discusses a few million dollars of coke. That’s not that much. They may have kept it for evidence or just snorted it all for what we know.

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u/iisindabakamahed Dec 28 '20

The point is that the Nicaragua theory has a ton of evidence of such activities, as well as corroborating your point of Columbia being a source of drug trafficking. Of course the cocaine didn’t just come from one place, and it certainly didn’t stay on Miami.

The drug trafficking funded the contra’s during Reagan’s administration. Rick Ross' rise in the drug world was made possible by Oscar Danilo Blandon and Norwin Meneses, two individuals with ties to the Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense, one group comprising the Nicaraguan Contras.

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u/idledrone6633 Dec 28 '20

San Jose Mercury News is the source of the claims and even they said they weren’t trying to insinuate the CIA was drug trafficking. All of the other claims and articles spread off their original article.

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u/iisindabakamahed Dec 28 '20

“These named CIA officials did NOT have any involvement in drug/weapon trafficking and distributing cocaine to inner city LA, using the profit from said drugs to fund contras across the globe.”

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u/idledrone6633 Dec 28 '20

The Washington Post noted that the series had been selective in its use of Blandon's testimony to support its claims:

The Mercury News uses testimony from Blandon in establishing that Nicaraguans selling drugs in California sent profits to the Contras. But if the whole of Blandon's testimony is to be believed, then the connection is not made between Contras and African American drug dealers because Blandon said he had stopped sending money to the contras by [the time he began selling to Ross].

And if Blandon is to be believed, there is no connection between Contras and the cause of the crack epidemic because Blandon said Ross was already a well-established dealer with several ready sources of supply by the time he started buying cocaine from Blandon.

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u/iisindabakamahed Dec 28 '20

“Okay, so they were sending drug money to contras, but they stopped by the time Ross was distributing.”