Carlos Lehder, co-founder of the Medellín Cartel and former ally of Pablo Escobar, has dropped a bombshell that the left and progressives don’t want to hear: the Cuban regime, led by Fidel and Raúl Castro, was a key ally in trafficking cocaine to the United States in the 1980s.
This truth, revealed exclusively by Martí Noticias, shatters the image of Cuba as a supposed revolutionary model and exposes the corruption and cynicism of a government that conservatives have always denounced.
While progressives in the U.S. and Europe were busy praising Castro, this regime was helping flood the streets with drugs, lining their pockets and betraying their own people.
Lehder is direct in pointing out the culprits. In his memoirs and interviews, he states:
I met with Raúl Castro and Colonel Antonio de la Guardia to negotiate the logistics of these operations.
He details how Cuba opened its doors to the Medellín Cartel, setting up airstrips in Cayo Largo and charging for every kilo of cocaine that passed through the island. And he leaves no doubt about who was in charge:
Fidel Castro had to know; he was the orchestra conductor.
This isn’t gossip; it’s the testimony of a drug trafficker who lived the business from the inside and now exposes the hypocrisy of the Castros.
For Republicans, this comes as no surprise. We’ve always seen the Cuban regime as a nest of opportunists who crush their people while engaging in dirty business. While the left romanticizes Fidel and Raúl, Lehder reveals the reality:
I was allowed to use facilities in Cayo Largo, where airstrips were set up and a payment was agreed upon for each kilo of cocaine transported.
That drug made its way to the streets, killing young people, all under a government that progressives defended as a «victim» of imperialism. What irony.
This happened in the ’80s, during the height of the Cold War, when Cuba presented itself as an ideological enemy of the United States.
They didn’t just attack us with speeches; they also hit us by facilitating drug trafficking to destabilize us. The supposed egalitarian paradise was a platform for drug lords, and the left in the West blindly applauded, ignoring the misery and complicity of Havana.
The regime, as always, denies everything. But their excuses can’t cover up the truth that Lehder has laid bare. This is a blow to the progressive narrative that paints Cuba as a model to follow. We know you can’t trust a government that represses its people while profiting from drug trafficking.
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