How Cuba supports the regimes of Venezuela and Bolivia

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Nicolás Maduro, Miguel Díaz-Canel and Evo Morales (Credit: YAMIL LAGE / AFP via Getty Images)

Editor's Note: Carlos Alberto Montaner is a writer and political analyst at CNN. His columns are published in dozens of newspapers in Spain, the United States and Latin America. Montaner is also vice president of the Liberal International.

(Spanish CNN) - The government of Washington, many experts and various opponents of Nicolas Maduro and Evo Morales blamed the regime in Havana to support these governments with their intelligence apparatus.

How can you be such a poor little island and manage to keep related regimes in power in much larger countries?

Simple: it is what the USSR was doing with its satellites, a country from which Cuba acquired that sinister knowledge.

There is a first critical phase in which the power lies in the Armed Forces, which Cuba advises to bribe.

During that period, Cuban intelligence builds an inventory of possible military collaborators and fills them with praise, invitations to Cuba and fosters an extreme bond of camaraderie and loyalty.

It forms a structure parallel to the conventional military hierarchy, while persuading the revolutionary leader that he has the unconditional support of Cuba, which will allow him to remain in power indefinitely, even if they traffic with cocaine and become international stinkers.

How do we know? We know it from the deserters. It is worth seeing and listening to Dr. Juan Antonio Blanco, a former member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party for the United States and Canada, in his sensational interview on “Now with Roxana,” available on YouTube.

Although Cuba denies interference in other countries, Juan Antonio Blanco revealed that there are links that closely advise President Evo Morales.

But what economic benefit does Cuba get from all this? Take out billions of dollars. Essentially, he takes them out by renting professionals, many of them related to medicine, to whom the Island confiscates between 60% and 90% of the salary. That transfer of doctors serves Havana, in addition, to place many of his intelligence laborers.

Cuba earns money and influence. That was Fidel Castro's dream.

Evo MoralesNicolás Maduro