Puntarenas was a Costa Rican Pacific coast city that gave its name to [[Frigorificos de Puntarenas]], a shrimp company used by [[Oliver North]] as a cover for Contra supply operations and money laundering. The company was owned and operated by Cuban-American drug traffickers.[^1] ### Frigorificos de Puntarenas Oliver North's Contra supply operation used Frigorificos de Puntarenas as a front company. The Medellín cartel's money-laundering wizard, Cuban-American [[Ramon Milian Rodriguez]], testified that Frigorificos was one of an interlocking chain of companies he had created to launder cartel cash. The company exemplified how Contra logistics and drug money laundering were intertwined on [[Costa Rica]]'s Southern Front, where narcotics trafficking, arms smuggling, and covert operations overlapped.[^2] ### Footnotes [^1]: Gary Webb, *Dark Alliance*, Ch. 10. [^2]: Gary Webb, *Dark Alliance*, Ch. 10.