The Caribbean's theater of operations, a smokescreen that distracts from the real military intervention in Venezuela

It was last December. At that time, two Tu-160 bombers landed in Caracas, aircraft with a range of over 12,000 kilometers and the ability to load nuclear missiles. They traveled nonstop from Russia, followed for a good part of the trip by Norwegian fighters. They left four days later.

In March, they landed at the Maiquetía-Civil airport, and not at a military base consisting of two Russian planes with more than a hundred military personnel. Several versions have circulated about the reasons for this. One of them said that they arrived to refurbish cybersecurity equipment of Russian origin affected by power outages. Another version, no less solid, indicates that the planes will load the gold that has plundered the Maduro regime for some time.

President Trump said the Russians should leave "immediately". But the NATO meeting in Washington last week only addressed the issue tangentially. Some badysts are concerned about a military escalation in the region. Do not forget that there has been talk of the presence of an Iranian ship in the past and, of course, of the known participation of Hezbollah in the regime.

The most concerned point out that Russia has a long history of military interventions to avoid a regime changeas in Syria and Georgia, for example, and the annexation of Crimea. This is very true, but stresses at the same time as ever as far from its borders as Venezuela.

In the title of this column, adjective "Caribbean" "theater" and not "operations". I could say "Caribbean" but it's not a coincidence. In a sense all this has more theater than operations. Interestingly, the Russian exhibition serves as smoke screen to divert attention from the real military intervention in Venezuela, a virtual occupation that takes place many years ago.

The one in Cuba. In February 2015, I wrote a text entitled "The United States, Cuba and Venezuela", in which it was affirmed that the crisis in Venezuela should be resolved between Washington and Havana. The thaw was then negotiated, the restoration of diplomatic relations. I argued that the Obama administration should include Venezuela in the equation.

If Cuba wants remittances, Internet and gringo tourists, I say, then dismantle the intelligence apparatus with which he controls the government of Nicolás Maduro.

Obama did not, leaving an unbeatable opportunity to anticipate the crisis. It was not necessary to have the crystal ball. Today, in Venezuela, there is no light, there is no water, there is no food and there is no water. there is no medicine. And of course, there is no law, democracy or freedom. Today we are experiencing the worst refugee crisis in the history of the hemisphere, which is getting worse every day that Maduro goes through in Miraflores. The symptoms of what is now an obvious tragedy were already visible in 2015.

As much as the desire of Maduro to deny the existence of it and that of Castro to continue living parasitically on a body that bleeds. Even today, Cuba receives the oil subsidy, consumes a fraction and "exports" the rest at market prices. We should rethink the "dependency theory" (there are many theories about addiction).

Still today There are more than 20,000 Cuban military officers in Venezuela. They send the barracks, infiltrate the officers and guard Maduro, which does not reasonably trust any Venezuelan army. G2, Cuban intelligence, has in its hands the electoral list and documentation of Venezuelans, cedulas and pbadports, and also manages airports.

That's it the true "Caribbean theater of operations" this is happening in Venezuela, note the adjective change. Are these pure operations, there is no theater there.

There is a movement, called progressive evil, called "Venezuela without hbadle". Opposes a military intervention that did not occur: the United States. About what happened does not say a word.