Revelations about his role in drug trafficking to USA and an alleged approach by Cuban officials to Washington to discuss the departure of Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela. These are two of the news that emerged in the … last week and involve the diet Havana.
Both “accusations” were denied by members of the Díaz-Canel government, but the events reveal how the regime is trying to distance itself from drug trafficking, fearing the domino effect that could be triggered.
While Donald Trump’s administration sinks drug ships and maintains deployment in the Caribbean of its powerful military forces, with the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Fordeight warships, a nuclear submarine and F-35 aircraft as part of its pressure campaign against Maduro, Havana publicly reaffirms its support for Maduro.
However, behind the scenes, the Castro regime is contacting US officials to discuss “what the world would be like without the Maduro government.”
This is what the Reuters agency claims, based on the testimony of two anonymous sources, who refused to say who, specifically from Cuba, had contacted the United States. For its part, Havana was quick to reject these “press reports”. The island’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joséphine Vidalsaid that “Cuba rejects attempts to tarnish its impeccable record in the fight for peace in Latin America, the Caribbean and against drug trafficking.”
Vidal described the versions about the contacts as part of a campaign to erode relations between Havana and Caracas. In his statement, he also stressed that “the American belligerent sectors are resorting to gross lies to try to break the unity of the government and people of Venezuela in the face of external aggression, as well as to implicate Cuba in the construction of lies and pretexts to justify the aggression.”
On November 25, the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, accused the U.S. government of promoting a “violent overthrow” of Venezuela and called the U.S. military presence in the region a threat. “exaggerated and aggressive”. He also warned that trying to topple Maduro would be “extremely dangerous and irresponsible.”
Seizure of an oil tanker
The chancellor also reacted to the recent seizure of a “very large” oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, which, according to an anonymous source cited by Bloomberg, was heading towards Cuba. Rodríguez Parrilla and the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canelthey described the action as a “act of piracy”.
But why would Havana be so concerned about the outcome of the conflict between the United States and Venezuela?
The Cuban regime is one of the main allies of Hugo Chavez And Nicolas Maduro. But it is an alliance that goes beyond politics and ideology.
The Cuban-American researcher Maria Werlaudirector of the Cuban Archives, defined this relationship as an “intervention” by Cuba in Venezuela, ranging from communications to the armed forces. “It’s all been a plan Fidel Castro with a continental objective, and it started with Chávez. Maduro trained in Cuba and has been a Cuban agent ever since. This is a guy that Cuba controlled. There are documents that support it,” says Werlau.
The confession of “Pollo” Carvajal
Hugo Armando Carvajal Barriosknown as “Pollo” Carvajal and former director of Venezuelan military intelligence under the governments of Hugo Chavez And Nicolas Maduroassured in a letter sent from a United States federal prison that Chavismo operated for two decades as a criminal network supported by narcoterrorism, espionage and electoral fraud with the direct support of the Cuban government.
These confessions were presented as the most extensive admitted by a Chavismo high command concerning the internal operations of the regime. The former general attributes to the Cuban regime the design of a plan – since the early 2000s – aimed at transforming drug trafficking into a mechanism of geopolitical pressure, the aim of which is to “use drugs as a weapon against the United States”.
Authorities have called “Pollo” Carvajal’s complaints “baseless” and part of a campaign to discredit the Cuban state.
Responsible for executing the strategy was the Soles cartel, with the support of the FARChe ELNCuban agents and terrorists Hezbollah. The former intelligence chief also described espionage operations promoted by Russia and Cuba from Venezuela.
Hours after the confession, senior officials from the Cuban regime’s Interior Ministry held a press conference during which, although they did not respond directly to Carvajal, They denied any involvement of the State in activities related to drug trafficking and reiterated their “zero tolerance” policy towards this crime. The authorities have described these complaints as “unfounded” and part of a campaign to discredit the Cuban state.
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