Without concrete evidence, it has been reported for a long time that Cuban soldiers were in charge of the custody of Nicolás Maduro and of turning Venezuela into a police state.
PUERTO PADRE, Cuba.- We live in Cuba with bad omens. Right now a snitch neighbor has just snitched on my wife: “And is it true that Maduro is involved in drug trafficking?” asked the pimp. “I don’t know, he’ll know that,” Magge responded. Since yesterday we have eyes and ears on us. There is silence, nothing is said, but the repression is felt by those of us who have lived with it for years.
Last night, when my editor suggested I write this column, I told the young woman that an overwhelming lack of properly verified information prevented an objective evaluation of what is happening in Cuba and what happened in Venezuela in the early hours of this Saturday, January 3, when, through a combined operation of special forces and United States intelligence – which, without a doubt, will be the subject of study in the military academies of the world – led to the extraction from the fortress where he was protected by the Cuban military in Caracas, Nicolás Maduro Moros, usurper of the 2024 elections in his country and accused of narcoterrorism by the criminal jurisdiction of New York.
And when this Saturday morning in Cuba we woke up with the news of the capture of Nicolás Maduro, and in Venezuela the embers of the bombings that served as support for the heliborne landing were still warm, and the blood of the dead or wounded Cubans was still fresh where they were killed by a force much superior not only in weapons but also in combat preparation, and, in short, in operational tactical forecasts that are what save or They lose battles, then, in the midst of that horror of deaths and bitterness for the defeat that, to the disadvantage of the one who assaulted from the air, was only possible because in their egotistical vulnerabilities the Cuban military and its leadership were weighed and measured millimeter by the Americans, well, then, in that state of debacle, the disaster hidden from the Cubans, we saw the usual mojiganga unfold in Havana, the so-called “anti-imperialist tribune” with the ridiculousness supine of everyday sepoys.
But, for those of us who are used to giving shape to an event by spinning its scraps, the images from the front row of this “anti-imperialist tribune” served as a warning: “Be careful! Something strange is happening here!”
It turns out that not only the “sacrosanct” presence of General Raúl Castro, so prone in these days of crisis to amending plans, but also that of any senior leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) or the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) was not seen in such a “tribune.” But no, none of them were up for “anti-imperialist tribune” nonsense; they had something much more important to do in their hands: the uprisings and the autopsies of the corpses of the fallen Cuban soldiers, those who breastfed, while defending the backs of a coward, Nicolás Maduro, and a dictatorship extended to Venezuela, the Castro-communist one.
Vaguely, the first news of the Cubans killed defending Nicolás Maduro would appear at noon this Saturday, but not through Díaz-Canel who, busy in the prudery of his banana speeches, hid what he was obliged to say; The news would be made public by President Donald Trump, who in a press conference said that Cubans had died defending Maduro and that there were many who had fallen, thus advancing the US president, which without concrete evidence had been denouncing for a long time, that the Cuban military was in charge of the custody of Nicolás Maduro and of turning Venezuela into a police state.
But the events that occurred in the early hours of this Saturday, January 3, have exceeded any expectations, even the wildest speculations. The figure of 32 dead, only published late this Sunday by official sources, is something as if an entire company that supposedly has training superior to that of regular troops, had been ambushed and annihilated without the slightest resistance. Personally, I do not remember a number of casualties like that except in large battles in Africa where thousands of soldiers of all arms participated. And, do not use as a simile the case of Granada, where the majority of casualties were civilians, builders, driven against the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States.
The death toll that is now revealed, and this without counting the wounded, gives us a very precise idea of the level of military intervention and interference of the totalitarian Castro-communist regime in Venezuela. And we are talking about personal security operational forces. They were people on guard duty, a shift, a day, a night, imagine how much the number of those soldiers stationed in Venezuela could rise, doing the work of the Venezuelan military because neither Chávez nor Maduro ever trusted their own people; No one from immigration, the police, criminal investigation or other officials in administrative or operational advisory work for the FAR or the MININT fell there, except for collateral damage from the bombings. There, bodyguards and operational officers in intelligence and counterintelligence tasks died, during their guard, that is, a work shift, who, paradoxically, with their death prove that Cuba’s military intervention in Venezuela is not a rumor, but an embarrassingly true fact for the Venezuelan military.
