Cali, Colombia
Cali, Colombia was the headquarters of the Cali Cartel, a rival to the Medellín Cartel that also played a role in the cocaine trade connected to the Contra supply chain.
Cali, Colombia was the headquarters of the Cali Drug Cartel, a rival to the 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 Blandón-Meneses network.1
The Colombian Connection
Colombian drug cartels, based in both Cali and 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
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