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category: "U.S. State"
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- geography
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- contra-war
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summary: Texas served as a transit corridor for Contra-connected cocaine shipments, with airfields and border crossings used to move drugs into the United States.
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Texas served as a transit corridor for Contra-connected [[cocaine]] shipments, with airfields and border crossings used to move drugs into the [[United States]]. The state's long border with [[Mexico]] and its network of airfields made it a key entry point for narcotics flowing north from [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]].[^1]
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### Contra Cocaine Routes
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[[Enrique Miranda]] testified that [[Norwin Meneses|Meneses]] "had on his payroll a series of American pilots and had taken charge of a control tower in the state of Texas." Norwin's cargo planes, based in [[Costa Rica]], had established flight plans to haul commercial goods to Texas as cover for drug shipments. Cars filled with cocaine-loaded PVC pipes were driven across the border in Texas or [[California]]. The Torres brothers described airfields in [[New Orleans]] and Brownsville, Texas, where Contra cocaine was allegedly being flown in under armed guard.[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 16.
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[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 16, Ch. 17.
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