Castro and Chavez, a criminal association.

By: Pedro Corzo - 18/01/2026

Guest columnist.
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The death of several dozen Castro henchmen in Caracas irrefutably testifies to the close alliance existing between the dictatorial systems of Cuba and Venezuela, a league in which the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Ortega-Murillo is directly involved, despots who have decided to release political prisoners in an attempt to alleviate the pressure that the current hemispheric conditions allow us to appreciate.

It is true that Venezuela has provided invaluable support to Cuban totalitarianism in the form of oil, the hiring of slave laborers, and international backing, but the Castros have also passed on, first to Hugo Chavez and then to the happily imprisoned Nicolas Maduro, their vast knowledge of activities related to repression, espionage, and a little-discussed aspect: the strategy to develop so that the majority of the politically dissatisfied population emigrates with the aim of reducing the opposition and generating income from abroad.

There have been numerous reports of the control exerted by Cuban Armed Forces officers over Venezuelan military institutions. Personnel of various ranks hold authority at Fort Tiuna, the most important military center, while simultaneously instructing intelligence and counterintelligence services on how to neutralize and even arrest potential conspirators within military units.

It must be pointed out that the teachings of Castroism have led the Venezuelan autocracy to implement a social control very similar to that of Cuba, characterized by sectarianism, discrimination and citizen distrust, culminating in a generalized hopelessness, in my opinion, the most tragic legacy of any dictatorship.

The links between the despots of both countries have been so deep that the most devastating butcher of Castroism, Ramiro Valdés, has been a frequent visitor to the South American country with the aim of setting up the logistical base that Chavismo needed to survive, so it is easy to infer that the Castro agents located in Venezuela have had a notable participation in the management of the drug trafficking that was handled by the cartel of the Suns.

Castroism is just as responsible for drug trafficking as Maduro and Diosdado Cabello, especially if we recall the accusations of Fidel Castro's close relationship with several of the drug kingpins of the eighties and nineties and other recent ones, which allege that the totalitarian regime tried to cover up its criminal activity with the execution of General Ochoa and other high-ranking officers.

It is widely known that the America Department, one of the totalitarian agencies dedicated exclusively to the subversion and destabilization of democracies, throughout its existence and under the direction of Manuel Piñeiro, alias "Barbarroja", when it was short of money, sought the necessary resources in drug trafficking and Carlos Lehder, more than thirty years imprisoned in the United States for trafficking narcotics, told Radio Marti, "I was invited by the communist government of Cuba, by the Castro dictatorship to Cuba, to establish there a conduit, a line, a route of cocaine trafficking to the United States."

Furthermore, I believe it necessary to remember that the Castro henchmen who died on January 3rd in Caracas were not the only ones of their ilk to be killed defending the worst. Fidel Castro always longed to subjugate Venezuela, although it was Hugo Chávez, a traitor to his country, who handed it to him on a silver platter.

The first known Castroist hitman killed in that country was Antonio Briones Montoto, one of the invaders of Machurucuto.

Castro's interest in imposing his fundamentalism on the hemisphere was constant, but two countries, unfortunately for them, exerted a fatal attraction on the Cuban despot: Venezuela and Colombia.

Castro's interest in Venezuela was evidenced by his trip to Caracas in January 1959, when he tried to convince the esteemed democrat Romulo Betancourt to ally himself with his proposals, an objective he did not achieve because the man from Guatire saw right through him, while millions of Cubans were captivated by the ever-tyrannical Fidel.

From the dawn of the Cuban revolution, hundreds of Venezuelan insurgents were trained and equipped with weapons and money from the island; however, the Castros' help did not destroy democracy, it was Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro who brought it down, and all together, they have been involved in drug trafficking.

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