#219 - How CIA Created the Cocaine Militias of Central America | Cookie Hood

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Danny Jones

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🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Cookie Hood grew up in the center of Nicaragua's revolution & helped break the Iran-Contra affair. Support on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones SPONSORS https://ketobrainz.com/pages/djp - Use code "DANNY20" at checkout. Visit https://betterhelp.com/dannyjones today to get 10% off your first month. EPISODE LINKS https://journalistapodcast.com FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny 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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So you have a new podcast that's called Journalista.
0:11.0	Correct.
0:11.5	And it's all about your life story.
0:13.4	What is the premise of that podcast?
0:15.2	Well, the premise is I was a war correspondent for CBS News for a couple of decades,
0:22.2	and the majority of the story takes place in Nicaragua in the 80s.
0:27.5	But the first couple of episodes, we touch upon pre-journalism.
0:34.9	I was a model in New York City.
0:37.4	I then married a cartel guy, so I was in the game
0:41.8	for a few years. And then I got out of that and wound up in Nicaragua covering a revolution.
0:50.4	So it isn't just about war. War is sort of the the backdrop it's also about the insanity that was
0:57.4	cookie the cbs office the people rolling in and out the partying so is your real name cookie hood
1:05.7	no it's courtney hood but i've been called cookie since the day i was born so I've been scouring the Internet all day and I couldn't find a damn thing.
1:12.5	I was on the DL for many years, so you're not going to find anything, really.
1:17.3	So if we Google Courtney Hood, will we find something?
1:19.6	No. No.
1:20.8	No. A Muppet comes up when you Google Cookie Hood, I think. Yeah. Yeah. And then there's a hit piece that comes up that they did on me.
1:30.7	I'm not sure if it's under cookie hood or Courtney Hood, but I think those are the only two things.
1:35.3	We're working to remedy that now. So why were you scrubbed from there? Were you just completely
1:39.6	just, you just never did anything on the internet? And I was off the grid, you know, when I was...
1:46.1	So on your website, it says that you were responsible for breaking the Iran-Contra scandal.
1:53.5	I was one of the people.
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