The foreign minister of the Cuban regime described Washington as “hypocritical” and accused it of paying “defecting Venezuelan soldiers” to lie, while evading answering about the Island’s role in regional drug trafficking.
MADRID, Spain.- The chancellor of the Cuban regime, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, reacted this Tuesday on social network to the recent complaints about drug trafficking that affect the governments of Venezuela and Cuba, directly attacking Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal, former head of Chavista military intelligence currently imprisoned in the United States.
Without mentioning him by name, Rodríguez accused “Venezuelan military deserters, paid by the special services of the United States and now tried in that country” of seeking “pardons, notoriety and residence in United States territory with false testimonies,” in a reference to Carvajal, who has recently reported the operation of the Cartel of the Suns and the support it received from the Cuban Government for more than two decades.
The chancellor’s message comes days after Carvajal publicly denounced that Havana acted as a strategic ally of Chavista drug trafficking, offering advice, intelligence and political protection to criminal structures linked to power in Venezuela. These statements provoked an unusual defensive reaction from the Cuban regime, which denied any link with drug trafficking, although without presenting verifiable evidence or allowing independent investigations.
Rodríguez chose to divert the focus towards the United States, which he described as “hypocritical” for, as he stated, being “the main drug market in the world” and for supposedly pardoning “a renowned drug trafficker like Juan Orlando Hernández.”
The chancellor maintained that Washington has no real interest in combating drug trafficking and that it hinders cooperation with Cuba in this matter. He also attributed the US military deployment in the region to an alleged plan to “attack Venezuela”, repeating the regime’s usual speech in defense of Chavismo.
While the foreign minister discredits key witnesses by calling them “consumers” and accusing them of lying to obtain legal benefits, the Cuban regime continues to avoid answering the central question raised by the allegations: what role has the Island’s Government really played in the drug trafficking networks that have operated in the region for decades.
