I recently watched the movie "Kill the Messenger" which was released in the fall of 2014. It's the story of journalist Gary Webb who in 1996 began looking into links between Nicaragua's drug-running Contra rebels and the CIA. He published his findings under the title "Dark Alliance" in the San Jose Mercury News in which he submitted that a US-backed rebel army in Latin America was supplying the drugs that made their way into some of Los Angeles' poorest neighbourhoods. More importantly, he tied the CIA to the drugs. "For the better part of a decade a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tonnes of cocaine to theCrips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles, and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency."
