From our Bureau of Reasonable Solutions to Thorny Problems in Latrine America with some assistance from our Bureau of Reasonable Solutions to Thorny Problems in Latrine America Most Likely to Be Ignored and our Triangle of Latrine American Doom Bureau
John Suarez at the Center for a Free Cuba has proposed a very reasonable and potentially effective solution to the current impasse on Venenozuela’s election fraud. Will any of the nations who are capable of implementing this solution listen? Unfortunately, relying on past experience — going back 65 years — the chances of any such solution being implemented are rather slim. Read John Suarez’s suggestion below.
Loosely translated from The Washington Times
Since Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro launched his attempt to steal the election that he lost in a landslide on July 28, thousands have been detained, 24 Venezuelans have been killed by government agents and threats are made daily by the regime that it will go against opposition leaders Edmundo Gonzalez or Maria Corina Machado.
Many underestimate the role of Cuba in the present crisis. The Castro regime assisted Hugo Chavez in his rise to power in Venezuela in 1999 and oversaw the succession of Mr. Maduro, who took over when Chavez died of cancer in 2013.
“It is estimated that the Cuban presence in Venezuela is 46,000 people, an occupation force that teaches to torture, to repress, to do intelligence tasks, civil documentation, migration,” said Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States, on Dec. 7, 2018.
“Venezuela has turned into an ally in the region of Russia, Iran, China, Cuba,” Ms. Machado said in her Aug. 11 interview on CNN with Fareed Zakaria. In the interview, she also observed that “Venezuela is a safe haven for irregular activities of criminal networks that are spreading in the region, not only narco trafficking, but illegal mining, traffic of human beings.”
The Cuban military dictatorship facilitated these relationships between Venezuela, Iran, China, Russia and criminal networks involved in drug trafficking, as well as the creation of new ones such as the Soles Cartel, which is linked to the Venezuelan military.
Havana served as a middleman, building alliances with regimes hostile to the United States and seeking to expand their influence in the Western Hemisphere to counter U.S. power.
In May, the Casla Institute, an organization that promotes democracy and the rule of law based in the Czech Republic, documented in its annual report how Cuban officials oversee, with Mr. Maduro’s approval, the repressive apparatus in Venezuela. Cuban officials are “the ‘experts’ who direct the torture to make the detainees say what the regime needs,” the report said.
“We have the largest torture center in Latin America,” Ms. Corina Machado said in her Feb. 7 appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
The Venezuelan opposition leader added, “Cuban agents have been involved in torture cases in our country.”
The crisis stems from the Biden administration’s gambit of promising sanctions relief and normalized ties in exchange for free and fair elections. The more unified and well-organized democratic opposition in Venezuela is exposing the dictatorship’s falsehood, while maintaining nonviolent discipline in the face of repeated acts of violence and repression by regime agents and their sympathizers.
What is happening in Venezuela is part of a disturbing pattern.
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Alas, leftists care far less about “the people” than about protecting leftist enterprises. See Cuba.