{"id":198047,"date":"2019-05-02T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T19:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=198047"},"modified":"2019-05-02T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T19:41:05","slug":"fernandez-de-cossio-no-cuban-troops-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/fernandez-de-cossio-no-cuban-troops-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Fern\u00e1ndez de Coss\u00edo: &#8220;No Cuban troops in Venezuela&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba has no troops in Venezuela and engages in no security operations there but maintains the right to carry out military and intelligence cooperation, a top Cuban diplomat said Wednesday in his government\u2019s most detailed response yet to U.S. accusations that its forces are propping up President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Fern\u00e1ndez de Coss\u00edo, Cuba\u2019s director-general of U.S. affairs, told The Associated Press in Washington that the U.S. is falsely accusing his country of having more than 20,000 troops and intelligence agents in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>De Coss\u00edo said there are roughly 20,000 Cubans in Venezuela but virtually all are medical workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no troops,\u201d he said in English. \u201cCuba does not participate in military operations nor in security operations in Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.embargo, together with highest-level sanctions, will be placed on the island of Cuba. Hopefully, all Cuban soldiers will promptly and peacefully return to their island!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1123333508078997505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>De Coss\u00edo said that despite the lack of Cuban boots on the ground, he could not deny the existence of intelligence cooperation because \u201cI don\u2019t have that information.\u201d But broader intelligence or military cooperation would be \u201ctotally legitimate,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States has over 800,000 Americans stationed around the world with over 600-700 military bases anywhere in the world. Any two countries in our region have military or intelligence cooperation and we have it with many countries. So it is totally legitimate, it is a sovereign right of Cuba and Venezuela to do so,\u201d de Coss\u00edo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what I am saying is that in spite of having that right, there are no military personnel of Cuba or troops, nor do we participate in any military or security operation as is constantly alleged,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba and Venezuela have had an extraordinarily tight alliance over the last two decades, forged when Cuban leader Fidel Castro counseled Hugo Ch\u00e1vez of Venezuela on surviving a coup in 2002. The relationship has since centered on Venezuela sending Cuba an estimated $30 billion worth of oil between 2003 and 2015, in exchange for Havana dispatching tens of thousands of medical workers and other government employees. Cuban programs in Venezuela have ranged from preventive health care to sports coaching and agronomy. According to U.S. officials and Venezuelan defectors, they also include intelligence, security and military cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuban intelligence forces, who have suppressed and censored their people for 60 years, have invaded Venezuela,\u201d said Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican seen as a major influence on the Trump administration\u2019s Latin America policy. \u201cThe Cuban regime provides security for Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who no longer trusts his countrymen, and actively leads operational assistance to crush the Venezuelan opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYT<\/a> your sources in this story (deliberately) lied to you <\/p>\n<p>That senior leaders of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MaduroRegime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MaduroRegime<\/a> are plotting against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Maduro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Maduro<\/a> is based on first hand information<\/p>\n<p>No U.S. govt agency disputes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cuba?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cuba<\/a> in effective control of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Venezuela?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Venezuela<\/a> security forces <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ix7mb6vIlq\">https:\/\/t.co\/ix7mb6vIlq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1123901747225821184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ben Rhodes, who negotiated detente with Cuba as a deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama, said the Trump administration is confusing doctors with military and intelligence agents but it is indisputable that Cuba has worked closely with the Venezuelan government on security matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cubans have a significant amount of personnel and probably the bulk of those are doctors but I\u2019m also sure they have people in various adviser positions related to ideology and security,\u201d Rhodes said. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a numbers question, I think it\u2019s more a question of replicating the tactics, drawing on advice and having some Cuban presence that they can count on.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019ve had an embargo for 60 years and it has completely failed while hurting the Cuban people, diminishing US leadership and polarizing Latin American politics <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cz4sUwBT8i\">https:\/\/t.co\/Cz4sUwBT8i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brhodes\/status\/1123339399083712514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rhodes said the Trump strategy of taking on Cuba and Venezuela closed off the possibility of a negotiated exit for Maduro and put the two socialist governments on comfortable terrain, confronting an American government that could easily be portrayed as bullying and imperialist.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubans and Venezuelans, they know how to operate in this environment,\u201d Rhodes said. \u201cThey know what it\u2019s like to be in a zero-sum ideological game in Latin America. They\u2019re better at it. These people have been doing this for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The collapse of Venezuela\u2019s oil industry led the country to cut back oil shipments to Cuba from roughly 113,000 barrels a day at their high point to 40-45,000 barrels today, said Jorge Pi\u00f1\u00f3n, an expert on both countries\u2019 energy strategies at the University of Texas at Austin. Today along with Cuba\u2019s domestic oil production, Venezuelan shipments cover a little more than half of Cuba\u2019s energy needs, leaving it to obtain the rest from other sources including Russia and Algeria, Pi\u00f1\u00f3n said. The terms of those other deals, and the degree to which Venezuela is helping fund them with cash or debt, remain unclear, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year relationship has made Venezuela the foreign country best-known by ordinary Cubans, after perhaps the United States. It\u2019s hard to find a Cuban family that doesn\u2019t have at least one relative who\u2019s served on a Venezuelan \u201cmission,\u201d and at least one other living in South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The exact nature of the Cuba-Venezuela relationship remains hidden to the public eye, and the subject of increasing tensions with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba has a large and highly professional security and intelligence apparatus, which includes thousands of operatives who would not be considered military troops. Venezuelan defectors have reported the presence of Cubans in key positions among the Venezuelan armed forces and intelligence services, but to date there has been no public proof.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has nonetheless repeatedly insisted that there are more than 20,000 Cuban security operatives in Venezuela tasked with directly supporting Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this afternoon 20-25,000 Cubans left Venezuela, I think Maduro would fall by midnight,\u201d U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said at the White House on Tuesday. \u201cIt\u2019s this foreign presence that sits on top of the military, sits on top of the government, that makes it impossible for the people\u2019s voice to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Cossio\u2019s deputy, Johana Tablada, told reporters in Havana that all of the Cubans in Venezuela are civilians and 94 percent are involved in medical missions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More: \u201cWe can\u2019t withdraw troops we don\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patrick Oppmann CNN (@CNN_Oppmann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN_Oppmann\/status\/1123675074974965760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>She called Bolton a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/cuba-rejects-trumps-new-threat-for-support-to-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pathological liar<\/a>\u201d with a long history of false statements including claiming in 2001 and 2002 that Iraq had stores of chemical weapons and that Cuba had biological weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The biological weapons claim has long made Bolton one of the most detested American figures among Cuban government officials, who have viewed his return to White House with dread.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton is seen as a key figure in the United States sharp U-turn on Cuba, from detente under President Barack Obama to open hostility under Trump. In recent months the U.S. has pledged to limited Cuban-Americans\u2019 remittances to Cuba, threatened to impose new regulations on travel here and allowed Americans to sue foreign companies doing business involving properties confiscated during Cuba\u2019s 1959 socialist revolution, a measure that goes into effect Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Tuesday threatened that \u201ca full and complete embargo, together with highest-level sanctions, will be placed on the island of Cuba &#8230; if Cuban Troops and Militia do not immediately CEASE military and other operations,\u201d in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was vague on what new measures are under consideration but De Coss\u00edo said Cuba had withstood 60 years of a U.S. trade embargo and wouldn\u2019t be deterred by further sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody should have informed him that Cuba is not easily intimidated,\u201d De Coss\u00edo said. \u201cMany of his predecessors have tried it unsuccessfully. It is something that won\u2019t work and it won\u2019t be productive for the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ch\u00e1vez and Castro said they first met in 1994 when the rising Venezuelan leader was personally welcomed by the Cuban president during a visit to address a conference in Havana. After Ch\u00e1vez became president in 1999, Castro\u2019s aid was seen as key to defeating the attempt to unseat him.<\/p>\n<p>Fueled by hundreds of billions in Venezuelan oil bounty during a long stretch of high oil prices, the pair founded leftist regional bodies that worked to undo U.S. influence in Latin America, and Venezuela filled with Cubans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had the luck of being personally seen off by the Commander in Chief (Castro) when I went to Venezuela along with 80 or so other medical workers,\u201d recalled Dr. Rafael Antonio Broche, who went to Venezuela in 2003 and served there under 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s foreign minister, Maduro, made frequent visits to Cuba that continued after Chavez died in 2013 and his hand-picked successor replaced him. His experience in Cuba went further back. According to accounts from Venezuelan leftists, Maduro studied for a year in the 1980s at a Cuban Communist Party institute dedicated to training future leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba has no troops in Venezuela and engages in no security operations there but maintains the right to carry out military and intelligence cooperation, a top Cuban diplomat said Wednesday in his government\u2019s most detailed response yet to U.S. accusations that its forces are propping up President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. 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