Ludmila Vinogradoff
09/01/2020 - 8:00
Clarín.com
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There are Cubans even in the soup in Venezuela and their unmistakable Caribbean accent can be heard even in the high and low leaders of the Nicolás Maduro regime.
Their presence is measured in figures:
some 220,000 Cubans have been sent to the country throughout these 21 years of Chavismo
, denounces Julio Borges, Presidential Commissioner for Foreign Relations of the interim government.
When then-President Hugo Chávez announced that Venezuela was “going towards Cuba's sea of happiness”, no one believed it possible, but when Fidel Castro established a bridge between Caracas and Havana and the Barinese commander announced that “the two countries were one nation ”
then the Venezuelans realized that they were serious.
The National Assembly led by interim president Juan Guaidó has carried out several investigations into the internal and external relations that Chavismo has had with emphasis on Cuba, Iran, Russia and China with worrying results that the reports have thrown.
From his twitter account, Julio Borges has begun to publish the reports, especially that of Cuba, which is the most complex and the oldest in the two decades of Chavismo.
Former Cuban President Raúl Castro (c), greets with the President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel (r), and the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro (i), in Havana, in 2018. Photo EFE
“Cuba's presence in Venezuela is in areas such as oil, economy, telecommunications, intelligence, national identity, and the National Armed Forces.
There are more than 220,000 Cubans who have passed through the country in 20 years
, it is an invasion, which has hijacked freedom in Venezuela, ”says Borges.
The diplomatic commissioner recalled that the late President Hugo Chávez signed an agreement with the Fidel Castro regime in 2000 in which he promised to export 40,000 barrels a day for almost free (at 2% interest and payable in 40 years) for consumption. exclusive internal.
Later, the volume
reached 90,000 barrels of oil per day,
with which the island resold half, thus violating the conditions of the original agreement.
In return, the Castros
sent large contingents of "cooperating" Cubans
disguised as doctors, technicians, spies, soldiers, athletes, and advisers in torture and police repression.
With this Cuban army, Venezuela has lost sovereignty.
It is common to see Cuban flags in the barracks of the Bolivarian Force.
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The real Cuban doctors have denounced, under anonymity, the conditions of exploitation and labor slavery to which they are subjected.
They say they receive about $ 300 per month, while the Cuban dictatorship charges the Chavista regime about $ 6,000
for each "aid worker."
According to Julio Borges, Venezuela
has given away about 40,000 million dollars
in crude oil and has financed other Cuban agreements, valued at 70 million dollars that do not include the financing of the Cienfuegos refinery, the submarine telecommunications cable and other projects.
The parasitic condition of the island with Venezuela has continued despite the difficulties of
90% of economic contraction since 2013
, when Nicolás Maduro took office, and the poverty of 96% of Venezuelans who have nowhere to fall dead or be buried or cremated in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
This sui generis relationship is well defined by Michael Kozak, US Under Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
“For the Cuban regime, Venezuela is only its coloni
a.
Through her puppet Maduro, the Castros and their accomplices receive food, medicine, oil and gasoline that Maduro has to steal ... from Venezuelans who are hungry, sick and without electricity, ”she says in her tweet.
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