Ross did 12 years in prison, and became the most fascinating character in the Iran-Contra scandal, wherein Ronald Reagan’s administration, aided by Oliver North, funded oppositional troops in communist Nicaragua by any means necessary, including dealing arms to Iran and giving the profits to the contras and tacitly-if we’re being generous-allowing cocaine traffickers to move drugs into the United States so they could funnel money back to the Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.Īs described by journalist Gary Webb in Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Explosion, this was a perfect storm of government complicity, drug war cruelty, and dope dealer ingenuity. In March 1995, not long after the video was shot, Ross was arrested trying to buy 100 kilograms from his connect, a Nicaraguan anti-communist named Oscar Danilo Blandón, who had been cooperating with the DEA. He’s in a striped T-shirt-nothing flashy-shaking hands, dapping associates, and sucking up a whole lot of love for both his superheroic drug dealing skills and putting a whole bunch of his blow money back into his neighborhood by way of new basketball hoops and local businesses. Video from the mid-’90s shows tennis prodigy turned cocaine dealer and eventual cog in the CIA-Contra-Crack conspiracy “Freeway” Ricky Ross bounding around his South Central Los Angeles neighborhood.
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