CFC Research Council member Professor Carlos Eire interviewed by Peter Robinson for Uncommon Knowledge, “From Havana to Yale: Carlos Eire on Cuba, Becoming an American—and Miracles”
Peter Robinson who hosts Uncommon Knowledge sent out the following message over X (used to be Twitter ) .
“Calling all Cubans: If you’re like my wife and her family, you’ve read and re-read Carlos Eire’s moving memoir, Waiting for Snow in Havana. On UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE, Eire discusses his life, his work–and his abiding love for the island he left more than half a century ago.”
Professor Carlos Eire is a historian at Yale University who fled from Cuba without his parents in 1962 on the Pedro Pan airlift, writes often in the public sphere about Cuban politics and culture. His first memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana received the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2003, and his second memoir, Learning to Die in Miami also became a bestseller. He is the author of several books on late medieval and early modern religion, including War Against the Idols (Cambridge University Press, 1986); A Very Brief History of Eternity (Princeton University Press, 2010), Reformations: The Early Modern World (Yale University Press, 2016), and They Flew: A History of the Impossible (Yale University Press, 2023). All of his books and articles are banned in Cuba, where he has been proclaimed an enemy of the state – a distinction he regards as the highest of all honors.
If you are visiting Washington DC then please visit the temporary exhibition: “Operation Pedro Pan: The Cuban Children’s Exodus” that was launched on June 25, 2025 with presentations by Professors Carlos Eireand Victor Triay.
The Ibero-American Alliance for Global Security, the Cuba in Transition Association, and the Center for a Free Cuba released the English edition of the new report “Cuba: Precursor of the Cartel of the Suns, and head of hemispheric drug trafficking” to watchdog groups
Full report available online: CUBA, PRECURSOR OF THE CARTEL OF THE SUNS Drug trafficking in the hands of the State
The Havana regime’s historical ties to drug trafficking and its role as an intermediary and coordinator in the hemisphere for drug trafficking into the United States have been presented in the report “Cuba: Precursor of the Cartel of the Suns. Drug Trafficking in the Hands of the State,” compiled by the Ibero-American Alliance for Global Security, the Cuba in Transition Association, and the Center for a Free Cuba.
The report has been sent to numerous organizations and entities dedicated to documenting drug trafficking and illegal activities, including the UN International Narcotics Control Board; the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime; the OAS Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission; the International Crisis Group; the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM); among other institutions.
“The Cuban regime’s connection to drug trafficking is well documented. There is an abundance of evidence gathered from court proceedings, defector testimonies, investigations, and historical records that detail the involvement of high-ranking officials and Cuban institutions—particularly the Armed Forces—in drug trafficking.” the report states.
Drugs have served Castroism as a lethal weapon to damage American capitalist society, as corroborated by the testimony of retired Romanian general Ion Mihai Pacepa, who documented Fidel Castro and Ceaușescu’s plans during their visit to Havana in 1972 to flood the West with drugs to weaken capitalism. According to Pacepa, Castro told Ceaușescu that “drugs could do more damage to imperialism than atomic bombs.”
From that date to the present, evidence of the Havana regime’s involvement in drug trafficking linked to the Colombian guerrillas, the control of Venezuela’s ports of entry and exit by Cuban military personnel to counter Plan Colombia, and the coordination of drug trafficking efforts in the region with other states such as Nicaragua with the Sandinistas under Ortega’s command and Panama during the Noriega regime, are based on direct testimony from former military personnel, former guerrillas, and drug traffickers prosecuted by the U.S. justice system, which directly implicates Cuba as a contact and support center for these illegal operations.
“We support the international community taking direct measures to stem the flow of drugs into their respective countries and to curb the growing number of young people dying from drug overdoses. We must remember that Venezuela and Maduro bear significant responsibility for these criminal acts, but the driving force is in Havana, and the facts prove it,” said John Suárez, executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba.
Link to read the full report: CUBA, PRECURSOR OF THE CARTEL OF THE SUNS: Drug trafficking in the hands of the State
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