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| + | '''Adolfo Calero Portocarrero''' is a Nicaraguan [[businessman]] and [[politician]] who became a leading figure in the US-backed [[Contras|Contra]] rebellion of the 1980s.<ref>CIA [https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/north.html Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story], 26 April 2007.</ref> | ||
According to the [[CIA]]'s account, Calero was active in the opposition to dictator [[Anastasio Somoza]], who was overthrown by the [[Sandinistas]] in 1979.<ref>CIA [https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/north.html Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story], 26 April 2007.</ref> | According to the [[CIA]]'s account, Calero was active in the opposition to dictator [[Anastasio Somoza]], who was overthrown by the [[Sandinistas]] in 1979.<ref>CIA [https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/north.html Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story], 26 April 2007.</ref> | ||
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Adolfo Calero Portocarrero is a Nicaraguan businessman and politician who became a leading figure in the US-backed Contra rebellion of the 1980s.[1]
According to the CIA's account, Calero was active in the opposition to dictator Anastasio Somoza, who was overthrown by the Sandinistas in 1979.[2]
According to US embassy officials, Calero initially sought to work with the new FSLN government. However, by late 1980, he had publicly criticised the Sandinistas.[3]
Calero left the country in December 1982 and joined the leadership of the opposition FDN. In January 1983, he travelled to Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia in search of support.[4]
Calero later became president and Commander in Chief of the FDN, the main Contra group of the 'Northern Front' operating out of Honduras.[5]
In an effort to unify the Contra forces, Calero joined Arturo Cruz and Alfonso Robelo in the leadership triumvirate of the United Nicaraguan Opposition, formed in mid-1985.[6]
Disputes with Robelo and Cruz led Calero to resign from the UNO leadership in early 1987. He went on to become a leading figure in the Nicaraguan Resistance (RN) formed in May that year.[7]
In February 1988, amid press reports of Contra drug-trafficking, a CIA cable informed Headquarters a "Nicaraguan exile had alleged at a meeting in Miami, Florida, that Enrique Bermudez, Adolfo Calero, Aristides Sanchez, and another individual were all involved in drug smuggling."[8]
The CIA described its response as follows:
- According to a February 1988 Headquarters cable, CIA records were searched in February 1988 regarding the Nicaraguan exile in response to his allegations that Calero and other UNO/FDN leaders had engaged in drug smuggling. The cable indicated that a number of sources characterized him as unstable, a swindler and as having a reputation of being a drug dealer in Nicaragua before leaving that country in 1983.[9]
According to the CIA information about this allegation was forwarded to the FBI but not reported to Congress.[10]
External Resources
- CIA Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story, 26 April 2007.
- History Commons Adolfo Calero
- Sourcewatch Adolfo Calero Portocarrero
Affiliations
References
- ↑ CIA Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story, 26 April 2007.
- ↑ CIA Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story, 26 April 2007.
- ↑ CIA Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story, 26 April 2007.
- ↑ CIA Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story, 26 April 2007.
- ↑ CIA Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story, 26 April 2007.
- ↑ CIA Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story, 26 April 2007.
- ↑ CIA Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story, 26 April 2007.
- ↑ CIA Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story, 26 April 2007.
- ↑ CIA Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story, 26 April 2007.
- ↑ CIA Northern Front Contras: The Contra Story, 26 April 2007.
