“U.S. hands off Venezuela,” “No blood for oil,” “No U.S. war on Venezuela.” These are the messages constantly displayed on two 3D LED screens on a New York street corner.
They refer to the operation that the Southern Command has been conducting for several weeks off the coast of Venezuela against the Cartel of the Suns, an organization declared a terrorist group by the Trump administration and which has infiltrated the highest ranks of the Chavista regime.
Since Hugo Chávez rose to power through the ballot box in 1998, Cuba effectively took control of Venezuelan institutions of power, such as the military. The oil-rich South American country became a kind of colony of Havana, which plundered and continues to plunder Caracas’s resources at ridiculous prices.
Once in power, Fidel Castro pushed Chávez to join the São Paulo Forum, a political organization founded by Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva and Castro in 1990 and used it to finance the rise of leftist parties and movements in Latin America.
Now, even in the decline of Chavismo, Havana has been supporting Venezuela by sending military counterintelligence personnel to reinforce the security of the current dictator Nicolás Maduro and helping to evacuate personnel from the Venezuelan embassy in Spain.
And it is even doing so now on U.S. territory. As former Chavista general Hugo Carvajal confessed a few days ago, Havana has been among the operators with spies infiltrated in American institutions, who have laundered money in Miami, New York, and Texas, and who coordinate operations to influence strategic decisions in Washington.
How? One way we have known about for some time is through activists or proxy groups that it trains and that its diplomats support, such as Calla Walsh, co-founder of Unity of Fields, formerly known as Palestine Action US, the Armed Queers of Salt Lake City (suspected of being linked to the murder of Charlie Kirk), or the Democratic Socialists of America, which sent a delegation to Venezuela and affirmed Nicolás Maduro's electoral fraud a year ago.
These organizations always find a way to interconnect their agendas and actions, in tributes to Fidel Castro alongside Ernesto Soberon Guzman, Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations, or representatives of The People’s Forum.
This latter group is behind the creation and the financing of the messages on two LED screens in New York that call for an end to counter-narcotics operations off the coast of Venezuela.
According to the Cuban Observatory of Cultural Rights, The People’s Forum “works closely with socialist and radical left-wing individuals and organizations, with whom it promotes and organizes various political, economic, and social activism projects. With a budget of $15,026,419 (2019), it offers platforms and organizational structures to groups and movements that align with the Forum’s ‘values ??and mission’ and that do not promote ‘capitalism/imperialism.’ (...) However, one of the Forum’s strongest activist lines is the promotion of autocracies such as China, Iran, and Russia.”
As if that weren't enough, Cuba spent years training the organizers behind the anti-Israel protests on university campuses, including the leader of The People’s Forum, Manolo De Los Santos, who visited Cuba as early as 2009.
De Los Santos does not hide his long-standing connection with Havana. In 2023, he posted on X that he had spent 10 days in Cuba “learning with its people & President Miguel Diaz-Canel.”
The radical activist, an avowed admirer of the Cuban Revolution, is now determined to try to modify public opinion regarding the Cartel of the Suns by paying for propaganda in the heart of the United States.
Havana spares no effort in empowering its venomous standard-bearers within American society, especially to influence the minds of young people. How long will it take for federal authorities to react to this?
