#219 - How CIA Created the Cocaine Militias of Central America | Cookie Hood

Danny Jones Podcast

Cookie Hood grew up in the center of Nicaragua's revolution & helped break the Iran-Contra affair.

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OUTLINE

00:00 - Why doesn't Cookie Hood exist on the internet?

05:26 - Reporting on Contra revolution

10:48 - Mindset of the rebel fighters in Nicaragua

12:51 - Becoming numb to death

15:58 - Who paid the Contra rebels?

20:24 - How the US created the problem of the Sandinistas

24:01 - Why no US journalists died with the Sandinistas

25:06 - Surviving a helicopter shoot down

34:30 - Marrying a Medellín Cartel boss

43:45 - Pablo Escobar at Cookies wedding

45:40 - Murder of American ABC journalist

58:14 - Did Samosa kill a Nicaraguan Journalist?

01:03:16 - Mistaken for William Randolph Hearst daughter

01:10:13 - Interviewing Eugene Hasenfus after the crash

01:14:30 - Cookie blew up Iran-Contra

01:17:57 - Iran hostage / weapons exchange

01:24:32 - Barry Seal & Roger Reaves

01:29:15 - Cookie's relationship with Pablo Escobar

01:32:50 - Interviewing Mother Theresa

01:39:45 - Is it safe for Americans to visit Nicaragua?