A Dark Narco-Alliance Reborn: The DEA-Sinaloa Connection
US Involvement Affirms Economic Dependence on Drug Trade and “War”
In 1996, investigative reporter Gary Webb shocked readers of the San Jose Mercury News with a series of articles he titled, “Dark Alliance.” In it, he chronicled the relationship between the CIA, Nicaraguan Contras, and crack cocaine dealers in Los Angeles during the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s.