Medellin
Medellín, Colombia was the headquarters of the Medellín Cartel, which supplied cocaine to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by Blandón and Meneses.
Medellín, Colombia was the headquarters of the Medellín Cartel, which supplied Cocaine to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by Danilo Blandón and Meneses. The city gave its name to the most powerful drug trafficking organization of the 1980s.1
The Medellín Cartel
Pablo Escobar and his Colombian associates Jorge Ochoa and Carlos Lehder controlled the blossoming Miami cocaine market, having wrested it from Cuban-Americans after a long-running drug war. Escobar's associate Lehder set up operations in the Bahamas, buying an island where drug planes from Colombia could land and refuel before flying into the United States. The Blandón-Meneses ring sourced cocaine from the Ochoa family in Medellín and the Suarez family in Bolivia. The DEA documented that the cartel's supply chain was directly connected to the Contra fundraising network.2
Sources
Named without a link 1
Local network
Search or select an entry to see how it connects to Medellin.
An interactive diagram of Medellin's connections, drawn on a canvas and explored with a pointer. The same connections are listed as links in the Connected and Mentioned-in sections below.
How to read the graph
- People
- Organizations
- Programs
- Events
- Concepts
- Places
Larger = more mentions across the vault.
A link from one entry to another.
A name mentioned in an entry without a direct link. Toggle these with “Inferred”.
Gold rings mark entries mentioned across several clusters.
Orange rings mark your selection.