On July 24,
2015 Conviasa, one of the airlines that provides service from Venezuela to Cuba, announced that Venezuelans will be required to obtain a visa to
travel to Island. What has changed? Did
the love affair created by Hugo Chavez with the dictatorial Castro regime ended with
the United States decision to lift the Cuban embargo?
Ever since Hugo Chavez started his
relations with Cuba, Venezuelans enjoyed visiting the poor, oppressed and
dilapidated country of Cuba without the inconvenience of getting a visa. The new relation between the United States or the “Imperio”
as the late Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro calls it, has awaken Cuba to a new
reality. Venezuela is a broken country, with no money, damage infrastructure
and an out of control delinquency.
The biggest danger to the rest of the free
world is terrorism. Venezuela has opened its door to Hamas, Hezbollah and it is
currently the biggest bridge for drug trafficking coming from Colombia to
Europe and the United States.
Cuba was removed from the list of countries
that sponsored terrorism by the Obama administration, even though many in Congress
disagreed with this move. Cuba was placed on this list in 1982, a year after Ronald
Reagan was elected president and the discussion over
the El Salvador’s civil was on the table. President Reagan’s decision was to
stop the Soviet Union from influencing Latin America with the help of Fidel Castro.
On August 2014 The Congressional Research Service
release a study done by Mark P Sullivan Specialist in Latin American Affairs
and June S. Beittel, Analyst in Latin American Affairs about "the United States
concerns on Venezuela’s lack of cooperation on
antiterrorism efforts, its relations with Iran, and the involvement of senior
Venezuelan officials in supporting the drug and weapons trafficking activities
of the FARC.”
Cuba is
now under the watch of the United States and the Castro dictators know well
that there is a big discontent among Cuban Americans with the Obama’s decision.
The “Imperio” is watching them, and any terroristic activity is bound to
jeopardize their future economic success.