Oscar Blandón
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Oscar Blandón is one of the two men named in Gary Webb's Dark Alliance series.

John Kiriakou identifies him in his account of what the seven articles actually alleged: "there were two people in particular one was named Oscar Blandon Oscar Blandon was a senior Contra leader who was in charge of this cocaine operation the other was a major drug importer based in Los Angeles."

The route Blandón's operation served is the one Kiriakou traces from the mid-1980s: cocaine arriving in the United States "ostensibly from Colombia but really making its way through Nicaragua", ending in Los Angeles, where "it was turned into crack cocaine", a drug nobody had heard of before 1984, and which then "took off like wildfire."

See also

- Dark Alliance
- Contra rebels
- Kill the Messenger (Gary Webb)
