#caribbean

Places (5)

• Bahamas The Bahamas served as a refueling stop for cocaine flights moving from South America to the eastern United States, with drug cartels establishing island bases for their smuggling operations.
• Cuba Cuba and the Cuban-American exile community played a significant role in Contra operations, with Bay of Pigs veterans serving as key CIA operatives and anti-Castro networks providing logistical support.
• Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic was connected to the Contra war through Enrique Bermúdez, who served as deputy commander of a Nicaraguan infantry company sent to support a U.S.-led invasion there in 1965.
• Haiti 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.
• U.S. Virgin Islands Unincorporated U.S. territory in the Caribbean bought from Denmark in 1917, where Jeffrey Epstein kept his islands, companies, tax exemptions and sex-offender registration from 1998 until his death.