2023-09-08 06:39:20
“Cuba faces human trafficking operations for military recruitment purposes“: this is the phrase that headed the statement that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs headed by Bruno Rodríguez sent on September 5 with the objective of hide that the communist regime has sent Cuban soldiers to Russia to participate in the attempted invasion of Ukraine that Putin ordered on February 24, 2022.
According to the MinRex version, the dictatorship would have detected “a human trafficking network that operates from Russia to incorporate Cuban citizens living there, and even some from Cuba, into the military forces participating in war operations in Ukraine.” It is obvious that no one believes that something like this could happen on the Caribbean island without the communist regime finding out. The truth is hundreds of young people would have been recruited since July.
For months there has been speculation about the possibility that Cuban citizens were joining the ranks of Russia to cover the loss of assets on the front, especially after the official visit of Manuel Marrero to the “sister nation” (which he now accuses of taking his people illegally) that took place in May, to expand and consolidate bilateral relations between our countries.
We arrive at the Federation of #Russia on an official visit to this sister nation, in order to expand and consolidate bilateral relations between our countries, maintained uninterruptedly from 1960 to the present. pic.twitter.com/yxCwovZhI4
— Manuel Marrero Cruz (@MMarreroCruz) June 6, 2023
In it Prisoners Defenders report In June, the organization already included the agreement reached to strengthen the alliance between the two countries. This included the sending Cuban troops to Belarussupposedly for “receive military training“. However, the Russian media themselves reported the arrival of Cuban soldiers to their territory to serve in Putin’s army.
On May 24, the Ryazan Gazette realized the arrival of Cubans to the Russian city to help his country. That would be the main motivation, although he also mentioned the “advantage” of the “economic component”, around 2,000 euros per month (when the average salary in Cuba does not reach 30 dollars). This was stated by Major Dmitry Zaitsev, who spoke of sending soldiers “on a daily basis.”
It should be remembered that Cuban law prohibits its military from leaving the Caribbean island without the consent of its government. However, there are hundreds of Cuban soldiers who have arrived in Russian territory in recent months. This is what he assures Javier LarrondoPresident of Prisoners Defendersin statements to digital freedom. “In fact, there are hundreds and they are deceived“, he asserts.
Russian media report the arrival of Cuban soldiers to join their troops. RYAZAN GAZETTE.
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“They promise them one tangential involvement, but not in the war“explains Larrondo, “and they are not paid the promised salary.” From what his organization has learned, “they are taken on planes on a route created between the Cuban and Russian governments.”The scheme is the same as that of the Cuban medical missions“. Of course, the ‘war missions’ are not given the same propaganda. “This time it was a covert operation, but came to light thanks to journalists of AmericaTeVe Miami television and the blogger Alain Paparazzi,” he points out. Faced with the gallery, Cuba demonstrates on the side of the UN and against the participation of its people in the conflict initiated by Russia.
However, it is worth remembering that the president of the country himself, the dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel, condemned “all measures and sanctions” that the West has adopted against Moscow after trying to invade Ukraine and provoke a war. Havana was one of the few governments that abstained from voting on the resolution to demand withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of its neighboring country, in March 2022. He also did not speak out against the annexation of the occupied Ukrainian regions in October of that same year, nor did it support the text for a “comprehensive, just and lasting” peace in February 2023.
What has happened now, that the sending of Cuban citizens to fight on the Russian front has become known, “is a scandal of global dimensions for Cuba.” “This is why he released the statement (in which he denies his involvement in the recruitments), which must be interpreted as: we have been caught red-handed“argues Larrondo. Proof of this is that “the soldiers he sends recruited to Russia do not stamp their exit passport in immigration, when this is what he does in one hundred percent of the cases.” On the other hand, he argues : “if – as it says in the statement – it is in the process of dismantling a network of trafficking of people who have been sent to the war in Ukraine, why does it not say anything about the victims?”
“Cuba has done nothing to rescue and save the lives of the hundreds of young people who would have been victims of this human trafficking network because It is the dictatorship who is taking these soldiers and mercenaries to the front of Ukraine“, reflects Javier Larrondo. “The reaction has been the same as when he dedicated himself to drug trafficking and then he dedicated himself to saying that he had dismantled a drug trafficking network and that they were going to punish the guilty,” he remembers. “Like everything that happens in Cuba, it is dystopian,” he asserts. “And the Europeans still do not react to Russia’s second largest ally in the Ukrainian war. After Belarus, there is Cuba.”
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