Havana/Strategic, military and ideological advice are the contributions of the Cuban regime in the creation and consolidation of the Los Soles cartel, “a drug trafficker composed of senior Venezuelan officials”, in the words of the US State Department. A report from the Cuba Cuba Ideas Century Center, published This Monday, he points out that the relationship between Havana and Caracas for more than two decades has contributed to the criminal tasks indicated by Washington when establishing social control methodologies and repression techniques in the Caribbean country
In the report, entitled The Cuban Maphal State and the Los Soles posterand signed by analysts Juan Antonio Blanco and Emilio Morales, it is remembered that the relationship with Venezuela began when, in the late 80s, Cuba ran out of allies or subsidies, after the fall of the Berlin wall and the dissolution of the USSR. Crouched, almost a decade later, Fidel Castro “found a partner in the Venezuelan coup colonel Hugo Chávez Frías” to a partner.
After jumping to the public arena in 1992 for his failed attempted coup against the then Venezuelan president Carlos Andrés Pérez, with the 200 Bolivarian Movement 200, founded by him being an army officer, Chávez, who was imprisoned for that act for two years, visited Havana. “Fidel sent him to look for,” said the Cuban-American researcher María Werlau In his book Cuba’s intervention in Venezuela: a strategic occupation with global implicationspublished in 2020. That first approach opened the door.
In 2000, the first major bilateral cooperation agreement was signed, which guaranteed Cuba the oil supply in favorable conditions
The consolidation of that relationship came later. As the group of journalists documented after the pseudonym Diego G. Maldonado in his book The consenting invasion (Debate), when in 2000 the first major bilateral cooperation agreement was signed, which guaranteed Cuba the oil supply in favorable conditions and opened the door for all types of businesses. Two years later, after the coup d’etat to Chávez, which decided to entrust intelligence tasks to arm against future military conspiracies.
Subsequently, in December 2007, Hugo Chávez lost a referendum that would have allowed indefinite re -election. Before that panorama, the 21st century report indicates that “Castro convinced him without much work that he could continue at the head of the country if he had the control of his armed services, subjecting them to the continuous inspection and monitoring of the Cuban intelligence apparatus. Thus two secret agreements were signed between Caracas and Havana that cemented the construction of Cubazuela, a two -phase mafia state that made possible the poster of the poster Soles ”.
The group arose under political, diplomatic, military and intelligence support of Havana to Hugo Chávez. “Cuba is part of that transnational poster, whose birth and ascent sponsored with Venezuela,” they rise.
The contribution also gave Earnings to Castro, who saw “the opportunity to shield his own regime and at the same time expand his influence.” An example of this are the “alliances with other antiestadounidenses states, such as the Nicaragua of Daniel Ortega and the Bolivia of Evo Morales, as well as with the theocratic autocracy of Iran and anti -Cidental nuclear countries such as Russia, China and the Democratic Republic of Korea”. He even adds the text, he also contacted other elements of Mexican drug trafficking that had already collaborated with Havana.
The role of the island is a key link in the Los Soles poster, “not as a drug producer, but as a strategic partner”
For Blanco and Morales, the three priority areas in which Cuba has contributed to the Venezuelan group have been offering a “sanctuary to narco -terrorists and criminals, as well as advice and training of intelligence and counterintelligence. In addition, he trains repressive forces and designs strategies to crush protests and opponents”.
Another is human and slave traffic, such as “the doctors’ export business, a modern trafficking scheme that has reported tens of billions of dollars to Gaesa [conglomerado empresarial controlado por los militares]. Some recent regional mass exodus have been promoted and exploited between Cuba, Nicaragua and Mexican posters for their benefit. ”
Finally, money laundering, where the hotel real estate industry is used, facade companies abroad and financial triangulation via the Cimex-Panama de Gaesa Corporation to bleach own and others.
The role of the island is a key link in the Los Soles cartel, “not as a drug producer, but as a strategic partner. Havana provides financial, logistics and intelligence infrastructure that ensures the operation and overall expansion of the poster. Internal, ”says the report.
The text warns, however, that this influence of the island on Caracas could fall in the event that Chavismo left power, which “would be internationally equivalent to the fall of the Berlin wall – while for Havana it would be comparable to that of the USSR -.”
