Through the Looking Glass with Joe

In Alice in Wonderland, a young girl named Alice enters a strange world where nothing makes sense and the laws of physics do not apply. Sometime around 2020, we all went through the looking glass into Joe Biden’s alternate reality. Just take a look at the latest developments regarding Venezuela and Cuba.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro at the weekend announced that he had an agenda of “liberation” and that it included invading Puerto Rico with the help of Brazilian troops. Speaking at the “International Anti-Fascist Festival” in Caracas, Maduro said that “Puerto Rico’s freedom is pending and we will achieve it with Brazilian troops.” Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States and has been since 1898.

In response to the threat, the governor of Puerto Rico, Jennifer González-Colon, sent a letter to Donald Trump asking for his help, requesting that Trump “act quickly and make it clear to the Maduro narco-regime that the United States will protect American lives and sovereignty and will not bow to petty, murderous thugs.”

“This is an open threat to the United States, our national security and stability in the region,” González-Colón told Trump. “I trust that your incoming administration will act quickly and make clear to the Maduro regime that under your leadership the United States will protect American lives and sovereignty and will not bow to the threats of petty, murderous dictators.”

Maduro’s mad regime in Venezuela is kept in power by Havana and supported in its efforts to destabilize the Western Hemisphere by the Cuban military. Still, Joe Biden followed immediately on the heels of Maduro’s threat to invade American territory. removed Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and also removed sanctions against the Cuban military. Trump designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism in 2021shortly before he left office, for “repeatedly providing support for acts of international terrorism by providing safe harbor to terrorists”.

So Venezuela, a Cuban client state, threatens to invade US territory and the US “President” responds by lifting sanctions on Cuba and making sure they can get the material they need to increase their military capabilities?

At least fifteen years ago, the Cubans began to integrate their military and their intelligence services into the Maduro regime. At this point, the Venezuelan and Cuban security services are almost indistinguishable.

In 2008 agreements signed by Havana and Caracas “gave Cuba enormous access to the Venezuelan military and broad freedom to spy on and reform it,” a Reuters investigation published in August 2019 revealed. The agreements led to “the imposition of strict surveillance of Venezuelan troops through an intelligence agency service now known as the Directorate General of Military Counterintelligence or DGCIM.” The alliance allowed the Cuban armed forces to:

• Train soldiers in Venezuela.

• Review and restructure parts of the Venezuelan army.

• Train Venezuelan intelligence agents in Havana.

• Change the mission of the intelligence service from spying on foreign rivals to monitoring its own soldiers, officers and even high-ranking commanders.

With the help of Cuban military personnel, Venezuela has “restructured the intelligence unit into a service that spies on its own armed forces, instills fear and paranoia and crushes dissent,” Reuters reported. Retired Venezuelan Army General Antonio Rivero, a senior ex-officer who has been in exile in Miami since 2014, also confirmed to Dialogo Americas that Cuba and Venezuela signed several secret military agreements in 2008, “handing control of the Venezuelan armed forces to Cuba.”

“In 2008, the presence of Cuban military personnel (in Venezuela) was consolidated through 15 secret agreements between Cuba and Venezuela to transform the Venezuelan armed forces and make them the same structure that operates in Cuba,” declared General Rivero, who also served as Chief of Civil Protection and Emergency Management during the Chavez government.

“Chavez invested billions of dollars in Russian weapons with Cuban mediation, and thus Venezuelan military personnel began to give up space to ‘Cubanize’ the armed forces,” added the former military officer.

At the same time, when the Cubans took direct control of the Venezuelan military, they did the same to the Venezuelan intelligence service, which has now effectively become a branch of Cuban intelligence. A significant number of Cubans work in Venezuelan intelligence.

Rocío San Miguel, director of the NGO Control Ciudadano, noted in 2019 that “Cuba today controls the country’s destiny.” “The situational space where the most important strategic decisions are made – political, military, but also economic and social – is in Havana,” San Miguel said, as quoted by Infobae. In short, when Maduro says he is going to war with the United States and “liberating” Puerto Rico, the message is really coming from Havana.

The Cubans have invested a lot of time and money in Venezuela, and they have no intention of allowing a democratic overthrow of Maduro. They are working overtime to ensure that Venezuelans ruthlessly crush any dissent and keep a communist totalitarian government in power.

According to one report by the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FHRC) entitled “Cubazuela”, the Cubans were bent on “methodically, shamelessly and shamelessly violating the sacred human right to life and sought to create an unprecedented climate of terror in Venezuela.” This included shooting unarmed protesters in the face, leaving them disfigured and dying in agony over a period of days. The CASLA Institute’s 2023-2024 annual report on crimes against humanity in Venezuela stated that Cuban intelligence officers ran the Venezuelan intelligence services and “have built a state torture apparatus.” This apparatus routinely used “medieval torture methods”, including metal chains, drownings, beatings and hangings.

The Venezuelans, with the obvious support and approval of the puppet masters in Cuba, just threatened to invade American territory. Biden responded by ignoring the threat and then taking steps to ensure that the Cubans and their Venezuelan lackeys can get all the material support they need to deal with the threat. We are well and truly through the looking glass, and inauguration day cannot come too soon.