For those who follow U.S.-Cuba policy and the many unforced errors made by previous administrations, the Biden administration exchanging criminals for U.S. hostages in Venezuela bring back some bad memories. In exchange for the release of American hostages held by the Castro dictatorship, Obama turned over members of the Cuban WASP network of spies imprisoned in the U.S., The Cuban spies had been tried and convicted for espionage along with their role in the murder of four American pilots shot down by the Cuban military over international waters. Now Biden has done the same with Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship. It’s déjà vu all over again.
Via the Center for a FREE Cuba:
Deja vu in Venezuela for Cuba watchers? American hostages swapped for high profile regime figures
In 1999, the year Hugo Chavez took office in Venezuela 3,186 U.S. citizens died of cocaine overdoses. In 2021, after 22 years of the Chavez-Maduro regime in power with the assistance of the Cuban intelligence service 23,513 Americans died in 2021 of cocaine overdoses. The Castro regime turned Venezuela into a mafia state, and it has cost tens of thousands in U.S. lives.
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