In addition to being a diplomat, Carlos Zamora has been identified by former Cuban intelligence officers as a spy trained by the KGB.
LIMA, Peru – The Peruvian Foreign Ministry reported this weekend that the Cuban ambassador to the Andean nation, Carlos Zamora, alias “El Gallo,” has ended his duties and left the country “permanently.”
The Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs shared the information via X (formerly Twitter), explaining that Zamora’s departure follows a meeting on October 28 with the vice chancellor of Peru.
According to the statement, at the meeting there was a discussion with the Cuban ambassador “about the activities carried out during his administration.”
“Based on what was discussed in that meeting, it is reported that Ambassador Zamora finished his duties in Peru and left the country permanently,” the official note states.
In addition to being a diplomat, “El Gallo” is credited with other tasks during his work outside Cuba, being identified by former Cuban intelligence officers as a spy trained by the KGB of the former Soviet Union.
Zamora’s departure comes amid a climate of tensions between the Government of Peru and the administration of Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico, an ally of the Castro regime on the Island.
The quarrels began after the Mexican request for asylum for Betssy Chávez, former prime minister during the mandate of the deposed leftist president Pedro Castillo, and prosecuted in Peru.
Carlos Zamora in Peru: a desired exit
On August 16, the Naval Union—a group of retired officers of the Peruvian Navy—called on the then president of that country, Dina Boluarte, to reduce diplomatic relations with Cuba to a strictly consular level and to order the regime’s ambassador, Carlos Zamora, and his wife to immediately leave the country.
In a letter dated Limathe organization bases the request on reasons of internal security and in the context of the 2026 general elections.
The Naval Union maintains: “It is a historically proven fact that the Cuban Government is a far-left Marxist-Leninist dictatorship, whose main objective since the last century is to radiate its disastrous ideology to the countries of the American continent.” According to the statement, this “perverse Cuban influence and infiltration” would have had an impact on the Venezuelan crisis and the instability of countries such as Nicaragua, Colombia, Chile and Bolivia.
The organization pointed to the past of Zamora and his wife as intelligence agents, highlighting that the official “arrives in the countries of interest under the guise of ambassador, and therefore with diplomatic immunity, with the purpose of carrying out clandestine proselytizing actions to attract followers and promote illicit acts and chaos in the internal order.”
The text also questioned specific events that occurred in Peru. He points out as “worrying” that, during the Government of Pedro Castillo, the then Minister of the Interior, Willy Huerta Olivas, met with Zamora to explore cooperation in citizen security: it was an “appointment that was suspiciously not registered on the Transparency portal of the Interior Sector.”
Likewise, he recalls the arrival, on June 18, 2022, of a contingent of 85 Cuban doctors and nurses, and states that “to date it is not known exactly what they did or what they are doing, because it is not known whether they have already left Peru.”
Admiral (r) and former congressman Carlos Tubino wrote in X that “the intelligence colonel should not be allowed to continue as Cuban ambassador in Peru and manipulate the electoral process. Let’s not act like idiots, relations with Cuba must be at the consular level.” Then he added: “You have to be very candid about facing an electoral process with this scoundrel on Peruvian soil… He looks like a ‘holy baron’ and is a manipulator.”
Meanwhile, the former member of the GEIN José Luis Gil He addressed the president, also in
