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category: Country
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.
tags:
- geography
- caribbean
- contra-war
---

Haiti was where [George Morales](/people/george-morales/) kept a C-47 cargo plane that he donated to the [Contras](/organizations/contras/), plus $10,000 for operating costs. The airplane was one of the contributions Morales made after being approached by [Felipe Vidal](/people/felipe-vidal/) and [Marcos Aguado](/people/marcos-aguado/) to support the Contra war.[^1]

### Caribbean Trafficking Routes

Haiti's location in the [Caribbean](/places/caribbean/) made it part of the broader network of airfields and transit points used for moving weapons and [cocaine](/concepts/cocaine/) between [South America](/places/south-america/), [Central America](/places/central-america/), and the [United States](/places/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]

[^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.