#colombia
16 entries tagged colombia.
People (9)
- Alberto Lleras Camargo Alberto Lleras Camargo served as Colombia's president twice (1945-46, 1958-62) and as the first secretary-general of the OAS, and was a key member of Nelson Rockefeller's inter-American political network from the 1940s onward.
- Allen Raul Rudd Colombian trafficker turned government informant who reported Pablo Escobar's claims of a guns-for-drugs deal between the Medellin cartel and the Reagan administration involving Vice President George Bush.
- Aparicio Moreno Colombian cocaine supplier and money launderer connected to both the Blandon and Meneses organizations, the FDN, and a Guatemalan CIA agent.
- Carlos Lehder Colombian drug trafficker who revolutionized cocaine smuggling for the Medellín cartel in the early 1980s.
- General William P. Yarborough Brigadier General William P. Yarborough led the February 1962 Special Forces survey team to Colombia whose classified report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended building a secret paramilitary network to 'execute paramilitary, sabotage and/or terrorist activities against known communist proponents,' a foundational document for what became Operation Condor-era state terror.
- George Morales Major Colombian drug trafficker who provided aircraft, money, and weapons to Eden Pastora's ARDE Contra faction with the knowledge and approval of CIA operatives, according to sworn congressional testimony.
- Humberto Cardona Colombian cocaine kingpin extradited to the United States in 1985 who continued supplying the South Central Los Angeles crack market through the Meneses-Blandon network while jetting around the world.
- Ramon Milian Rodriguez Ramon Milian Rodriguez was the Medellín cartel's money-laundering expert who created Frigorificos de Puntarenas and testified that the cartel donated $10 million to the Contras.
- Wanda Palacios Miami FBI informant and wife of a Colombian trafficker who witnessed Southern Air Transport planes being loaded with cocaine and unloading guns in Colombia.
Organizations (4)
- Cali Drug Cartel Powerful Colombian drug trafficking organization based in Cali, described in a 1994 Time magazine article as controlling 80% of the world's cocaine trade.
- FARC The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla organization founded in 1964 that financed operations through cocaine taxation and drug trafficking, fielding approximately 20,000 fighters at its peak before a 2016 peace agreement produced a formal dissolution.
- Medellin Cartel Colombian drug trafficking organization based in Medellín that dominated the international cocaine trade, driving down U.S. prices and creating conditions for the crack epidemic.
- Toro Bravo Toro Bravo was a child pornography production company based in Bogota, Bogota, headed by Jean Manuel Vuillaume.
Places (3)
- Bogota Bogota was the capital of Colombia and a center of the cocaine trade that supplied the Contra-connected trafficking networks operating in the United States.
- 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.
- Medellin Medellín, Colombia was the headquarters of the Medellín Cartel, which supplied cocaine to the Contra-connected trafficking networks run by Blandón and Meneses.