18 lines
1.2 KiB
Markdown
18 lines
1.2 KiB
Markdown
---
|
|
category: "Country"
|
|
tags:
|
|
- geography
|
|
- caribbean
|
|
- contra-war
|
|
summary: Haiti was where George Morales kept a C-47 cargo plane that he donated to the Contras, part of the Caribbean infrastructure supporting the covert war.
|
|
---
|
|
Haiti was where [[George Morales]] kept a C-47 cargo plane that he donated to the [[Contras]], plus $10,000 for operating costs. The airplane was one of the contributions Morales made after being approached by [[Felipe Vidal]] and [[Marcos Aguado]] to support the Contra war.[^1]
|
|
|
|
### Caribbean Trafficking Routes
|
|
|
|
Haiti's location in the [[Caribbean]] made it part of the broader network of airfields and transit points used for moving weapons and [[Cocaine]] between [[South America]], [[Central America]], and the [[United States]]. Morales's use of a plane stored in Haiti for Contra operations illustrated how the covert war's logistics infrastructure extended throughout the Caribbean basin, overlapping with established drug trafficking routes.[^2]
|
|
|
|
### Footnotes
|
|
|
|
[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 13.
|
|
[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 13.
|