Word: mena
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with most smears, Reed's allegations are built on a slim foundation of truth. Before being gunned down in Louisiana by a squad of Colombian hit men in 1986, a convicted drug smuggler and dea informant named Barry Seal was involved in something fishy at the airport in Mena, a heavily wooded town 130 miles west of Little Rock. In 1984 Seal played a part in Oliver North's campaign to prove that the Sandinista government was in league with Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel. In exchange for a reduced sentence on drug-smuggling charges, Seal flew...
What does this have to do with Reed, a 43-year-old pilot and machine-tool salesman who now lives in Moorpark, Calif.? He claims that in 1983 North recruited him to go to Mena to work with Seal and help train contra pilots. He also says North asked him to donate a Piper airplane to the contras and then report the plane as stolen so that insurance would cover his loss. Later that year, Reed and his wife Janis received a $33,000 insurance payment for the Piper. He says he quit the contra effort in August 1987 after...
...Christian Democrats, the largest opposition party, have little choice but to form a coalition with emerging center-left parties. The strongest, the Democratic Convergence, received less than 15% of the vote in recent local elections. The Christian Democrats' best presidential hope is still former Foreign Minister Fidel Chavez Mena, whom Cristiani thrashed soundly in 1989. Says Chavez: "The left must think really hard about its proper role in the new El Salvador. We foresee an alliance of democratic forces that would permit a government of concertacion...