On December 26, 1982, at his San Vicente hacienda, located in the department of Beni, Don Roberto Suarez Gómez (nicknamed the King of Cocaine) celebrated the birthday of his eldest son, Roby (recently released from jail in USA). For the occasion the family hired foreign chefs. The musical group was in charge of the best national groups of the time, in addition to the Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán. But Manolo Otero’s appearance on stage was the finishing touch. However, neither renowned chefs nor luxury singers were the highlights of that party, but Pablo Escobar Gaviria and Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha.
The arrival of morning did not stop the pachanga. With alcohol already high on their heads, the Colombians confessed their plans to smuggle cocaine into the United States using Cuban ports and military launches.
The partnership between Roberto Suarez Gómez, Pablo Escobar and Fidel Castro ended in 1984. The Cuban dictator received information about the parallel operations that his partners were carrying out with Manuel Antonio Noriega. True to his custom, Castro made the decision to get rid of his unloyal accomplices. However, luck played in favor of the Bolivian and the Colombian, they escaped certain death.
With the breakdown of that partnership, Castro lost millions of dollars. Additionally, the Soviet bloc was beginning to crumble. For this reason, in 1990, together with Lula Da Silva, he founded the Sao Paulo Forum. This new socialist brotherhood had two central objectives: First, to find new countries to steal money from and, in this way, sustain Cuban tyranny. Second, control drug trafficking routes to, in the words of Fidel himself, pierce the blockade.
The expansion of the dictatorship in Cuba as of 1990 – but with greater force since Hugo Chávez took it out of its special period in 1998 – led to the establishment of dictatorships in Venezuela with Chávez himself, Nicaragua with Daniel Ortega, Ecuador with Rafael Correa and Bolivia with Evo Morales. These regimes were soon structured as narco-states, whose main characteristic is the systemic violation of human rights.
In this regard, Juan Reinaldo Sánchez, the dictator’s bodyguard for 17 years, in an article entitled: The Cuban Methodology of Social Control, explains how Fidel Castro ―using the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples as bait― infiltrated the press, universities and the security forces of several Latin American countries to implement methods of social control and mechanisms of computer manipulation. The model to follow would be that of COPEXTEL. The company is in charge of censoring and manipulating the information that Cubans can see on the Internet. But their main job is, through careful espionage, to nullify any dissenting ideas.
Likewise, Reinaldo Sánchez tells us about the most “successful” product that the Cuban dictatorship exported to the region: physical and psychological torture inside prisons – which, in most cases, ends in prisoner suicides. In fact, during a seminar for MAS supporters in August 2021, former Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramón Quintana – a great admirer of Cuban methods – assured that former President Jeanine Añez is “on the border of her emotional breakdown.” . At that time, she Añez tried to take her own life as a result of her, according to versions of her defense and her family members, of the psychological torture to which she was subjected.
The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in force for Bolivia, for all the countries of the Americas and the rest of the world, determines that “organized criminal group” shall mean a structured group of three or more persons that exists for a certain period of time. and who acts in concert with the purpose of committing one or more serious crimes or offenses established in accordance with this Convention, with a view to obtaining, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit”.
You only have to review the news, newspapers, videos and magazines, see the images on social networks, listen to the statements of people like Quintana and members of his organization, in addition to seeing the day-to-day life of Bolivian political prisoners to verify the miserable condition of national justice, currently subjected to the MAS and its whims. We are not facing a political force, but a criminal group.
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