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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?