From our extremely busy and nearly exhausted Bureau of Twenty-First Century Neocolianism
While visiting Grand Putinia, Castro, Inc.’s Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero has been very busy meeting with top Russian kleptocrats, making all sorts of deals, signing all kinds of accords.
In other words, he and his new Russian overlords have been drawing blueprints for the Russian takeover of Cuba.
Apparently, according to knowledgeable sources, these blueprints include military installations, such as a port in Cienfuegos that can serve as a submarine base.
How lovely. . . .
Abridged and loosely translated from Diario de Cuba
Russia’s Horn News warned in its analysis of the bilateral talks that when it comes to military cooperation issues, “it is understandable that the details have not yet been revealed.”
And he anticipates something that until now had not been mentioned: “In addition to the supply of more current weapons, Russia is considering the option of its limited presence in Cuba. After all, Soviet troops were present in Cuba, even with ballistic missiles.”
This medium recalls that in January 2020, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, visited the Island, who held “a series of meetings with the leadership of the Department of Defense of the Republic of Cuba, as well as visits to different objects and Navy units.
That visit, clarifies Horn News, “was related not only to the demand for restoration of the small Cuban Armed Forces, but also to the modernization of the port facilities where ships and submarines of the Russian fleet will stop to replenish reserves.”
The report reveals something else: that base would be located in Cienfuegos, where nuclear submarines and Soviet warships anchored periodically in the 1970s.
Few reports from the official Cuban press reported that Evmenov was received in 2020 by Raúl Castro. But they did not disclose details of their exchanges.
In January 2022, the then Russian ambassador in Havana, Andrei Guskov, recalled Evmenov’s visit, and indicated that “we continue to collaborate closely in this sphere, assisting our partners in strengthening the capacity of the Revolutionary Armed Forces ( FAR) of Cuba”.
Days earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov stated that Moscow neither confirmed nor denied that in certain circumstances it would study the possible deployment of forces in other nations as a symmetrical countermeasure to US and NATO military activities near its borders.
The project agenda that is being speculated about also includes resurrecting the Lourdes radio electronic espionage base, whose main objective was to listen to American communications. That military enclave, which reported millions to the Fidel Castro regime, was “frozen” in 2002, “but its technical condition was maintained by Russian specialists all these years. (…) And, according to experts, it can be resurrected in just a few months “adds Horn.ru.
Remember how JFK and his people contemptibly dismissed Cubans who warned about Soviet missiles in Cuba, until that could no longer be denied? You get the idea.