Carlos Lehder, co-founder of the Medellín Cartel and former ally of Pablo Escobar, has dropped a bombshell that the left and progressives don’t need to hear: the Cuban regime, led by Fidel and Raúl Castro, was a key ally in trafficking cocaine to the USA within the Eighties.
This fact, revealed completely by Martí Noticias, shatters the picture of Cuba as a supposed revolutionary mannequin and exposes the corruption and cynicism of a authorities that conservatives have at all times denounced.
Whereas progressives within the U.S. and Europe had been busy praising Castro, this regime was serving to flood the streets with medicine, lining their pockets and betraying their very own folks.
Lehder is direct in declaring the culprits. In his memoirs and interviews, he states:
I met with Raúl Castro and Colonel Antonio de la Guardia to barter the logistics of those operations.
He particulars how Cuba opened its doorways to the Medellín Cartel, establishing airstrips in Cayo Largo and charging for each kilo of cocaine that handed by the island. And he leaves little doubt about who was in cost:
Fidel Castro needed to know; he was the orchestra conductor.
This isn’t gossip; it’s the testimony of a drug trafficker who lived the enterprise from the within and now exposes the hypocrisy of the Castros.
For Republicans, this comes as no shock. We’ve at all times seen the Cuban regime as a nest of opportunists who crush their folks whereas participating in soiled enterprise. Whereas the left romanticizes Fidel and Raúl, Lehder reveals the truth:
I used to be allowed to make use of amenities in Cayo Largo, the place airstrips had been arrange and a cost was agreed upon for every kilo of cocaine transported.
That drug made its technique to the streets, killing younger folks, all underneath a authorities that progressives defended as a «sufferer» of imperialism. What irony.
This occurred within the ’80s, throughout the top of the Chilly Warfare, when Cuba introduced itself as an ideological enemy of the USA.
They didn’t simply assault us with speeches; in addition they hit us by facilitating drug trafficking to destabilize us. The supposed egalitarian paradise was a platform for drug lords, and the left within the West blindly applauded, ignoring the distress and complicity of Havana.
The regime, as at all times, denies every part. However their excuses can’t cowl up the reality that Lehder has laid naked. This can be a blow to the progressive narrative that paints Cuba as a mannequin to comply with. We all know you possibly can’t belief a authorities that represses its folks whereas making the most of drug trafficking.
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