 In the movie, in return for his get-out-of-jail-free card, Schaefer went sealed to fly AK-47s out of Mina to the Contras. The insurgent group tasked with overthrowing the Sandinistas, the left-wing movement that itself overthrew Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Samoza de Valle in 1979 and took his place. Then, Schaefer ups the ante by requiring Seel to return, bearing Contras who will be trained in Mina. Meanwhile, Seel's old pals Ochoa Neskvar suggest he drop some of his guns off in Colombia and resume bringing in cocaine on the return trip. It is certainly true that Seel's planes, by which now he had a fleet, flew from Mina to Colombia, making refueling stops in Panama and Honduras, where the Contras were training. Before returning, laden with approximately $13 million worth of drugs, Cockburn, among several other journalists and historians, also alleged that a quid pro quo existed, with the CIA turning a blind eye to Seel's drug smuggling in return for his using it as a cover to get weapons to the Contras.