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Title: Proof of Extensive Cuban Military Presence in the Venezuelan Armed Forces
Post by: TomSea on February 23, 2019, 07:46:36 pm

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Proof of Extensive Cuban Military Presence in the Venezuelan Armed Forces
By Josefina Blanco

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Cuba’s intelligence service and military have long had an active presence in Venezuela (Twitter).

Cuba’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez, reacted with anger to statements offered Monday by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, in Florida in support of Venezuela and its struggle to rid itself of the socialist dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, whom he termed a “puppet” of Havana. He also accused Cuba of using its armed forces to exert control over the South American country.

This Tuesday, in a press conference, he described as “outrageous” Trump’s accusation that the island “maintains a private army in Venezuela…I’m asking you to present evidence. Our government rejects that slander in the strongest and most categorical terms,” Rodriguez said on the Twitter account of the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

When we discuss “a private army in Venezuela” as Rodriguez says, the issue really involves the presence of Cuban military personnel in the country, and years of close collaboration with the objective of controlling the Armed Forces of Venezuela.

Read more at: https://panampost.com/josefina-blanco/2019/02/20/proof-of-extensive-cuban-military-presence-in-the-venezuelan-armed-forces/