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]: Gary Webb, *Dark Alliance*, Ch. 5. [^2]: Gary Webb, *Dark Alliance*, Ch. 6.