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category: "U.S. State"
tags:
- geography
- contra-war
summary: Louisiana was a primary drop zone for Barry Seal's cocaine airdrops and a destination for Contra-connected drug flights through the southern United States.
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Louisiana was a primary drop zone for [[Barry Seal]]'s cocaine airdrops and a destination for Contra-connected drug flights through the southern United States. The state's rural airfields and proximity to the Gulf Coast made it ideal for the large-scale drug smuggling operations that funded both the [[Medellin Cartel|Medellín Cartel]] and the [[Contras|Contra]] war.[^1]
### Barry Seal's Operations
In the early 1980s, Seal was one of the biggest cocaine and marijuana importers in the southern [[United States]], flying loads in directly for the Medellín Cartel and air-dropping them with pinpoint precision across Louisiana, [[Arkansas]], and other southern states. A letter from Louisiana's attorney general to U.S. Attorney General [[Ed Meese]] stated that Seal had "smuggled between $3 billion and $5 billion worth of drugs into the U.S." Seal's farm in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]], was allegedly used as a drop site for cocaine and marijuana flown into the country, according to a 1983 [[U.S. Customs]] report.[^2]
### Noriega's Drug Routes
[[Manuel Noriega|Noriega]]'s drug ring planes refueled at Contra airstrips in northern [[Costa Rica]] before continuing to the United States and dumping their loads in Louisiana and [[Texas]]. The state served as a key destination for the Caribbean drug corridor, with [[New Orleans]] functioning as both an airfield entry point and a base for Contra-connected cocaine distribution.[^3]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 7.
[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 7.
[^3]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 14.