{"id":20174,"date":"2025-11-01T18:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=20174"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:07:11","slug":"cuba-precursor-of-the-cartel-of-the-suns-and-head-of-hemispheric-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2025\/11\/cuba-precursor-of-the-cartel-of-the-suns-and-head-of-hemispheric-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba: Precursor of the Cartel of the Suns, and head of hemispheric drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"

by John Suarez (612) 367-6845\/ Janisset Rivero (786) 208-6056\u00a0 –\u00a0 \u00a0Center for a Free Cuba, September 29th<\/sup>, 2025, Washington, DC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Havana regime\u2019s historical ties to drug trafficking and its role as an intermediary and coordinator in the hemisphere for drug trafficking into the United States have been presented in the report \u201cCuba: Precursor of the Cartel of the Suns. Drug Trafficking in the Hands of the State,\u201d compiled by the Ibero-American Alliance for Global Security, the Cuba in Transition Association, and the Center for a Free Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report has been sent to numerous organizations and entities dedicated to documenting drug trafficking and illegal activities, including the UN International Narcotics Control Board; the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime; the OAS Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission; the International Crisis Group; the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM); among other institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cuban regime\u2019s connection to drug trafficking is well documented. There is an abundance of evidence gathered from court proceedings, defector testimonies, investigations, and historical records that detail the involvement of high-ranking officials and Cuban institutions\u2014particularly the Armed Forces\u2014in drug trafficking.\u201d <\/strong>the report states:<\/span><\/p>\n

“Drugs have served Castroism as a lethal weapon to damage American capitalist society, as corroborated by the testimony of retired Romanian general Ion Mihai Pacepa, who documented Fidel Castro and Ceau\u0219escu\u2019s plans during their visit to Havana in 1972 to flood the West with drugs to weaken capitalism. According to Pacepa, Castro told Ceau\u0219escu that \u201cdrugs could do more damage to imperialism than atomic bombs.<\/span><\/p>\n

From that date to the present, evidence of the Havana regime\u2019s involvement in drug trafficking linked to the Colombian guerrillas, the control of Venezuela\u2019s ports of entry and exit by Cuban military personnel to counter Plan Colombia, and the coordination of drug trafficking efforts in the region with other states such as Nicaragua with the Sandinistas under Ortega\u2019s command and Panama during the Noriega regime, are based on direct testimony from former military personnel, former guerrillas, and drug traffickers prosecuted by the U.S. justice system, which directly implicates Cuba as a contact and support center for these illegal operations.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“We support the international community taking direct measures to stem the flow of drugs into their respective countries and to curb the growing number of young people dying from drug overdoses. We must remember that Venezuela and Maduro bear significant responsibility for these criminal acts, but the driving force is in Havana, and the facts prove it,\u201d said John Su\u00e1rez, executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba.”<\/span><\/p>\n

PDF version of the report downloadable here: https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/923479521\/Cuba-Precursor-of-the-Cartel-of-the-Suns<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0<\/strong> Submitted by\u00a0drug-watch-international@googlegroups.com<\/a> On Behalf Of <\/strong>mlp3@starpower.net – \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a030 September 2025 01:04<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by John Suarez (612) 367-6845\/ Janisset Rivero (786) 208-6056\u00a0 –\u00a0 \u00a0Center for a Free Cuba, September 29th, 2025, Washington, DC.\u00a0 The Havana regime\u2019s historical ties to drug trafficking and its role as an intermediary and coordinator in the hemisphere for drug trafficking into the United States have been presented in the report \u201cCuba: Precursor of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,129,104,14,139,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-violence-prison","category-culture","category-political-sector","category-social-affairs","category-strategy-and-policy","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20175,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20174\/revisions\/20175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}