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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.

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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 and South America.1

Contra Cocaine Routes

Enrique Miranda testified that 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

Sources

  1. Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 16. ↩
  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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