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category: "City"
tags:
- geography
- colombia
- contra-war
summary: Cali, Colombia was the headquarters of the Cali Cartel, a rival to the Medellín Cartel that also played a role in the cocaine trade connected to the Contra supply chain.
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Cali, [[Colombia]] was the headquarters of the [[Cali Drug Cartel]], a rival to the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] that also played a role in the [[cocaine]] trade connected to the Contra supply chain. The city's drug trafficking organizations were part of the broader Colombian narcotics infrastructure that supplied the [[Danilo Blandon|Blandón]]-[[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] network.[^1]
### The Colombian Connection
Colombian drug cartels, based in both Cali and [[Medellin|Medellín]], supplied the cocaine that flowed through the Contra-connected trafficking networks into the [[United States]]. The [[DEA]] documented that the Blandón-Meneses ring sourced cocaine from the Ochoa family in Medellín and the Suarez family in [[Bolivia]], with the drugs transiting through [[Central America]] and the [[Caribbean]] before reaching American streets.[^2]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 5.
[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 6.