The mercenaries of Castroism

By: Pedro Corzo - 06/10/2025

Guest columnist.
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Once again, we read and hear of young Cubans dying in foreign lands, the responsibility of the totalitarian Castro regime imposed more than 66 years ago by brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro, the main architects of the destruction of the nation, not just the Republic.

Cuban mercenaries operate in Ukraine on behalf of Russia and KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin. According to Ukrainian intelligence, 39 islanders have died while wearing Russian uniforms; the number of wounded or missing is unknown. It is noted that another 20,000 are believed to be serving the Kremlin.

Some media outlets report that these young people have been lured with false promises of jobs in construction and warehouses, with well-paid wages compared to the miserable salaries in Cuba, while unaware that they were about to participate in an imperialist war.

However, knowing Castroism, I don't rule out the possibility that many are participating voluntarily, as happened in the past. The dictatorship is very adept at selling the population dreams that are actually horrible nightmares.

Fidel and Raúl Castro sent tens of thousands of Cubans to serve in Africa. Many of these people were pressured by the regime, threatened in various ways, and had no alternative but to act according to their conscience, but others, quite a few, went voluntarily. They were convinced of the slogan "the future belongs to socialism," and so they took the risk to achieve a comfortable position in tomorrow's utopia.

Nearly half a million Cubans traveled to Angola in uniform alone, and it's safe to say that many, many, didn't have to be threatened to serve in the last Spanish-speaking imperialist army, that of Fidel Castro, because they were imbued with the "proletarian internationalism" proclaimed by the serial killer Ernesto Che Guevara, who brought Cuba into the African wars with the approval of his all-powerful brothers.

Castro's totalitarian regime never ceased to attack the United States for its participation in the Vietnam War, yet, proportionally to their respective populations, the island's regime sent more troops to serve in Angola than Washington did to the Asian country.

The Castro brothers' imperialism spread across the continent, seemingly imitating the colonialist European nations of the 19th century. Fidel Castro, under the pretext of hypocritical solidarity among workers, sent between 12,000 and 17,000 troops, including airmen, more than 350 tanks, and artillery batteries to Ethiopia to support it in a territorial war.

The Castros thus satisfied a request for help from another tyrant, the new master of the former Abyssinia, the friend and ally, also a servant of Moscow, Mengistu Haile Mariam, who was at war with Somalia over the Ogaden region, a war conflict little remembered on the Island because, as independent journalist Luis Cino relates, it is a way of erasing from history General Arnaldo Ochoa, who served his masters with great loyalty for many years.

It is true that there is a lot of African blood in Cuba as a result of slavery, but perhaps no other Latin American nation has shed more blood in Africa than Cuba as a result of the conflicts created by totalitarianism.

The substitution of values ​​among the population has been gradual, methodical, but no less horrifying. The worst of these is the loss of a sense of nationhood and the lack of civic spirit among a large portion of society. Fortunately, there are no shortage of bastions of decorum that hold the seeds of a nation. Although they are currently imprisoned or suffering internal exile, they are part of the nation's indispensable reserve.

Castroism, in order to serve the hegemonic policy of the defunct Soviet Union, defamed our most transcendent values ​​in an attempt at national refoundation that negatively altered the public consciousness. It attacked the Church, falsified history, while forging new paradigms modeled on and similar to the tyrant's proposals. The entire administration of totalitarianism has motivated a materialistic passion characterized by serving whoever pays the most.

Cubans who have served as mercenaries for Castroism are not always victims of the dictatorship; sometimes, they have been its perpetrators.

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