Cuban advisors

Diplomatic corner

August 20, 2010

U.S. president makes recess appointment of U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, who had questionable ties to Cuban diplomats/agents. [El Nuevo Herald] Cuba has “exported” doctors, nurses and health technicians to earn diplomatic influence in poor countries and hard cash for its floundering economy. [Wall Street Journal] North Korea’s Kim Jong-il has a taste for Cuban [...]

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What are 30,000 Cuban advisers doing in Venezuela?

March 16, 2010

Via the Christian Science Monitor: To date, the Obama administration has dismissed Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez as a pesky, leftist loudmouth, whose verbal eruptions against the United States pose no threat. But a new era of “Cubanization” in Venezuela should warn of a crackdown against Mr. Chávez’s domestic opponents and a stepped-up drive for socialist [...]

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Cubans manage levers of power in Venezuela

November 17, 2009

An elite group of Cuban technicians and advisors actively participate in the control of official functions key in the Venezuelan government with the consent of authorities, including the military command, warned a former high ranking official of the Chavista administration, reports El Nuevo Herald.

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