Cuba, the main dictatorship that occupies and subjugates Venezuela, must be indicted and stop going unpunished
Two months after the opposition’s victory in the July 28 elections in Venezuela, the deception of the dictatorship has failed, reducing it to internal control with state terrorism at the hands of the occupation and growing international isolation. Nicolás Maduro is defeated, but The Cuban occupation—which subjugates and suppresses with impunity—is intact and urgent to identify and syndicate as the main enemy of the Venezuelan people fighting for their freedom.
Hugo Chávez’s first decision after assuming the presidency of Venezuela on February 2, 1999 was save the Castro dictatorship in Cuba which was dying in its so-called “special period”, a state of progressive misery, as a result of the demise of the Soviet Union (USSR), whose satellite and economic and military parasite Castroism maintained in the Cold War. Fidel Castro received Chávez at the Havana airport on December 13, 1994, two years after Chávez’s failed coup d’état in Venezuela, and that was the beginning, if not the beginning, of the coup.
Chávez became the capitalist partner and visible leader of the Bolivarian populist movement that is today 21st century socialism or Castrochavism, with Fidel Castro as a contributor to the operational and intelligence system as Lula da Silva that with the Sao Paolo Forum he supported the Cuban dictatorship since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of the USSR. It is possible that Chávez’s leadership was only a temporary manipulation of Castroism, which included even subordinating Fidel Castro to Chávez, but which determined the expansion of the Cuban dictatorship in America and the control of Venezuela.
History proves that with the death of Hugo Chávez Venezuela became a territory occupied and controlled by the Cuban dictatorship who installed Nicolás Maduro as his operator to subjugate the Venezuelan people. Chávez’s death was the decisive event that gave control of Venezuela to Cuba and also gave him leadership of the group in Latin America.
Hugo Chávez’s death was announced on March 5, 2013, but is labeled as faked as it would have occurred between December 28 and 30, 2012 in Havana. The subject of such manipulation was the succession dispute between Venezuela’s Castroism for Maduro and Venezuela’s Chavismo de Cabellointo which the Cuban dictatorship imposed its operators.
But the most important thing about Chávez’s death is who caused it and who it benefited. The book “The Future Has Its History”, by Henrique Salas Romero, in the chapter “The Invasion is Complete”, pages 283 et seq., presents an audio between the Cuban ambassador to Venezuela German Sanchez Otero and Raúl Castro, in which they discuss what to do with Chávez: “We have to find out if it’s appropriate to continue with Chávez at the helm, or we have to make a small change and look for someone closer, more in line with the Cuban. revolution.” Regarding Chávez, he added: “He has ideas similar to ours…but they are not the same…he believes he is the reincarnation of Simón Bolívar and we have our own revolution…there cannot be two leaders.”
Did the Cuban dictatorship kill Hugo Chávez? In any case, he is the recipient because Castroism rose from second place to leader and to full control of Venezuela and 21st century socialism he imposes his “obedient and manageable Nicolás Maduro”. The most concrete result can be seen at the Panama Summit of the Americas in 2015, in which the Cuban dictator Raúl Castro assumed the leadership of Latin America and the President of the United States recognized him as such and a few months later restored diplomatic relations with the dictatorship.
The evidence is abundant, there are years of historical records in international relations, internal control, oil supply and direct and indirect sources, subordination and replication of intelligence mechanisms, armed forces, penetration by Russia, China and Iran with the Cuban dictatorship as the driving force, State terrorism installed and regulated by Cuban operators, anti-imperialist discourse and the same blackmail methodology with which the Cuban dictatorship moved the center of the dispute to Venezuela to protect itself. Violations of human rights and crimes against humanity are no longer talked about in Cuba but in its main colony which is Venezuela.
In the chess of aggression of dictatorships against democracy in America, the Cuban dictatorship managed to attack the pawn (dictatorship of Venezuela) and ignore the king (dictatorship of Cuba), who is not even in the game and who operates with impunity. with “plausible deniability”, which is “the ability of senior officials in the formal or informal chain of command to deny knowledge of, participation in, or responsibility for any reprehensible action or crime ordered by their subordinates to be committed.”
Time is running out against Nicolás Maduro, who, due to his own agenda, must hand over command to President-elect Edmundo González Urrutia on January 10, 2025. Puppet operator Maduro is defeated, but the supreme dictatorship is intact, repressing, torturing and murdering in Venezuela, with the option of doing without Maduro in negotiations that will allow him to retain power even if he hands over power. The point is to understand that the oldest dictatorship in the Americas is coming to an end in Venezuela, which is why this challenge is colossal and affects all democracies in the region.
*Lawyer and political scientist. Director of the Inter-American Institute for Democracy