Danny Jones | The REAL Story Behind Iran-Contra will Blow Your Mind | Cookie Hood @dannyjones | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Cookie Hood grew up in the center of Nicaragua's revolution & helped break the Iran-Contra affair.
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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Why doesn't Cookie Hood exist on the internet?
05:26 - Reporting on Contra revolution
10:48 - Mindset of the rebel fighters in Nicaragua
12:51 - Becoming numb to death
15:58 - Who paid the Contra rebels?
20:24 - How the US created the problem of the Sandinistas
24:01 - Why no US journalists died with the Sandinistas
25:06 - Surviving a helicopter shoot down
34:30 - Marrying a Medellín Cartel boss
43:45 - Pablo Escobar at Cookies wedding
45:40 - Murder of American ABC journalist
58:14 - Did Samosa kill a Nicaraguan Journalist?
01:03:16 - Mistaken for William Randolph Hearst daughter
01:10:13 - Interviewing Eugene Hasenfus after the crash
01:14:30 - Cookie blew up Iran-Contra
01:17:57 - Iran hostage / weapons exchange
01:24:32 - Barry Seal & Roger Reaves
01:29:15 - Cookie's relationship with Pablo Escobar
01:32:50 - Interviewing Mother Theresa
01:39:45 - Is it safe for Americans to visit Nicaragua?