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Thursday, July 31, 2025
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Cuban Colony Spies
A year ago yesterday, a vast majority of Venezuelans defended their popular sovereignty as demonstrated civically through their vote for freedom on July 28, 2024, and they have continued to do so over the past twelve months paying a terrible price.
Maduro and his Cuban overlords have been stripped of all legitimacy, and rule Venezuela today through the application of terror, torture, and repression.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado remains in the country defying the dictatorship. In an interview in EL PAÍS on July 28, 2025 she spoke plainly about the challenges the democratic resistance in facing.
“All Maduro has left today is terror, a regime of terror sustained by impunity. In recent days there have been more than 35 disappearances while a prisoner exchange they boasted about was taking place. Why are they doing this? First, because they believe there will be no consequences, and here I feel the international community owes Venezuela. And second, the regime fears us, because even if you don’t see mass protests in the streets, they know there is a country in turmoil. This process is irreversible, and July 28th will be the catalyst for Venezuela’s freedom.”
The international community cannot continue to ignore or downplay the role the Cuban dictatorship is playing in propping up the Maduro regime. Cuban regime agents were present on the ground in Venezuela before the July 28, 2024 election, and at least four unscheduled flights took off from Havana and arrived in Caracas on July 30,2024 reported Diario Las Américas, citing a source from the island.
“I cannot confirm whether they were carrying passengers or not, nor what they were carrying and what the purpose of these flights would be,” the source explained at the time.
The first plane, the Conviasa A340 executive plane, which President Miguel Díaz-Canel normally flies on, left Havana and landed in Caracas on the morning of Tuesday the 30th. The second, rented from Turkish Airline, also left the Cuban capital for Caracas, where it arrived at midday. The third aircraft, from Cubana de Aviación, left Havana after one in the afternoon.
In an interview published on August 17,2024, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado acknowledged the Cuban dictatorship’s ongoing involvement in Venezuela’s internal affairs.
“National and international human rights organizations have issued severe objections…Several Venezuelan opposition victims have recounted atrocities [by Cuban captors]. We have long known that Cuba has had a negative impact in a variety of areas, including repression, persecution, espionage, and torture. And we have witnessed some callous acts in recent days.”
Venezuela is a colony of the Castro dictatorship, and has been for some time.
On January 20, 2020 Nicolas Maduro at the XX Meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission of the Cuba-Venezuela Integral Cooperation Agreement reaffirmed the colonial status of his government stating, “I’ve told our older brother and protector, Raúl Castro Ruz, and he agrees. And it has been discussed in this mixed commission and we agree. The ambassadors are practically part of the Council of Ministers, the ambassador of Cuba has open doors in each ministry to coordinate, to move forward.”
Attorney, human rights defender, and executive director of the Casla Institute, an organization that promotes democracy and the rule of law based in the Czech Republic ,Tamara Suju, over Twitter revealed that Maduro was still dissembling on the extent of the Cuban Ambassador’s existing role in Venezuela:
“The ambassador of the Cuban dictatorship is already an integral part of the Operational Strategic Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (CEOFAN) and makes decisions. No one from the island enters or leaves without him knowing. All missions and Cuban militia report to him. Dagoberto Rodríguez is the ‘Boss’,
Below is the video of Nicolas Maduro (in Spanish) from Monday, January 20, 2020.
This mentality did not begin with Mr. Maduro. In 2007 Hugo Chávez declared that Cuba and Venezuela were a single nation. “Deep down,” he said, “we are one single government.” Commander Ramiro Valdes with President Hugo Chavez
Attorney, human rights defender, and executive director of the Casla Institute,Tamara Suju, over Twitter revealed that Maduro was still dissembling on the extent of the Cuban Ambassador’s existing role in Venezuela:
“The ambassador of the Cuban dictatorship is already an integral part of the Operational Strategic Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (CEOFAN) and makes decisions. No one from the island enters or leaves without him knowing. All missions and Cuban militia report to him. Dagoberto Rodríguez is the ‘Boss’,
Below is the video of Nicolas Maduro (in Spanish) from Monday, January 20, 2020.
Some still argue that Venezuelan democrats should not have gone to the elections under the current dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro, but by unifying the opposition, taking part in the July 28, 2024 presidential election, Venezuelans demonstrated they supported change.
Similar processes happened in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Albania, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Chile, South Africa, and the Philippines. People under repressive regimes, as Venezuelans are now doing, follow agreements between the parties to promote and ensure the legitimacy of those processes. They challenged tyranny by their ballots, taking to the streets in protest, and because their leaders were steadfast the struggle continued, and with international solidarity they succeeded in ushering in an enduring democratic transition.
In the Venezuelan case the international community was not as supportive, and could still do much more to recognize and support the sovereignty and democratic aspirations of the Venezuelan people. Eric Farnsworth in the July 2025 edition of the Journal of Democracy has written an important essay titled “Venezuela’s Lost Year” in which he calls on the world’s democracies not to sit on the sidelines, and offers a series of proposals on how they can raise the costs for the Maduro regime.
Farnsworth identifies a number of causes for the present crisis in Venezuela: “a combination of vapid Chavismo ideology, Cuban imperialism, great-power competition, and the unbridled greed and political ambition of its rulers and their cronies, who have looted the national patrimony “
According to the CASLA Institute’s 2024–2025 Annual Report, which was released in May 2025, foreign players like Russia and Cuba have been instrumental in fortifying the Maduro regime’s repressive structures, solidifying what the report refers to as a transnational criminal state.
Human Rights Watch in their April 30, 2025 report “Punished for Seeking Change: Killings, Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detention Following Venezuela’s 2024 Election” identified the Cuban government as one that assists the Maduro regime in its repression, and called on exploring ways to “encourage or pressure” to end it.
Venezuelan torture victims have testified how their sessions were overseen by the political police at Venezuela’s national intelligence agency, with assistance from Cuban intelligence officers.
The Cuban dictatorship’s role extends beyond torturing Venezuelan dissidents. Havana’s intelligence and security apparatus “has created a permissive environment for international terrorists to live and thrive within Venezuela,” reported the U.S. State Department in 2021. The Castro regime played an important role in the creation and expansion of the Cartel de los Soles.
Global Security Analyst Samantha Wutz in July 2021, while interning at the Center for a Free Cuba investigated Havana’s role in the Cartel de los Soles and published a report.
Cuba played a big role in establishing drug trafficking within Venezuela though their connection with Colombian guerilla forces.[xxxiv] The FARC is said to be the organization that many in the Venezuelan military receive their drugs from.[xxxv] The relationship between the FARC and Venezuela under Chávez was strained at times due to members of the FARC seeing Chávez as ideologically unreliable and a shootout between the FARC and Venezuelan troops.[xxxvi] Cuba had close relations with both Chávez and Colombian guerilla groups like the FARC who had liaison offices in Havana.[xxxvii] Due to this, Cuba assisted in mending the issues between the two groups.[xxxviii]
The world’s democracies must do more to rally, work together,and impose multilateral sanctions to ostracize the Venezuelan dictatorship as was done with the apartheid regime in South Africa. It must target individual Venezuelan officials who engaged in crimes against humanity with sanctions and charges in the International Criminal Court. This will also necessitate pressuring Havana to withdraw their soldiers, intelligence officers, and torturers currently operating in Venezuela.
There is still time to free Venezuela from Cuban imperial rule, and restore democracy to this important South American country. This will also save American lives by reducing the volume of narcotics entering the country.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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