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category: "City"
tags:
- geography
- colombia
- contra-war
summary: Medellín, Colombia was the headquarters of the Medellín Cartel, which supplied cocaine to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by Blandón and Meneses.
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Medellín, [[Colombia]] was the headquarters of the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]], which supplied [[cocaine]] to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by [[Danilo Blandon|Danilo Blandón]] and [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]]. The city gave its name to the most powerful drug trafficking organization of the 1980s.[^1]
### The Medellín Cartel
[[Pablo Escobar]] and his Colombian associates [[Jorge Ochoa]] and [[Carlos Lehder]] controlled the blossoming [[Miami]] cocaine market, having wrested it from Cuban-Americans after a long-running drug war. Escobar's associate Lehder set up operations in the [[Bahamas]], buying an island where drug planes from Colombia could land and refuel before flying into the [[United States]]. The Blandón-Meneses ring sourced cocaine from the Ochoa family in Medellín and the Suarez family in [[Bolivia]]. The [[DEA]] documented that the cartel's supply chain was directly connected to the Contra fundraising network.[^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. 5, Ch. 6.