China Confidential
Foreign News and Analysis Since April 2005
Friday, November 05, 2010
China Confidential Exclusive: Venezuela's Chavez Replacing Some Cuban Advisors With Iranians
China Confidential South American sources report that Iranian intelligence and military advisors are edging out their Cuban counterparts in some important national security positions in Venezuela.It seems that the country's Communistic president, anti-American strongman Hugo Chavez, has quietly come to see the presence of Cuban soldiers in the Venezuelan army's highest decision-making levels as a potential personal threat. So he is replacing them, slowly but surely, with members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps--the elite, SS-like organization that controls all military and intelligence matters in the nuclear-arming, Islamonazi nation.
Cuban physicians, teachers, technocrats, sports instructors, and military personnel have overrun Venezuela in the 11 years that Chavez has been in power; and Cuban advisers can be found in key posts at every Venezuelan ministry. Although the Cubans have brought healthcare to the poor and knowhow and expertise in other areas to Venezuela, Chavez, in spite of all the bilateral cooperation agreements with Cuba and his many expressions of solidarity with the Castro regime, still sees the Caribbean island nation as a small, second-class country--a former Soviet client state with severe and perhaps permanent economic problems and limited, long-term usefulness for oil-rich Venezuela.
In contrast with his assessment of Cuba's value, Chavez views Iran in an entirely different light. Venezuela's strengthening ties with Iran are "strategic," according to Chavez, who has repeatedly made clear that the two countries are bent on confronting--and defeating--United States "imperialism" in order to overthrow the existing world order.
The menacing moves and declarations should be seen in the context of Venezuela's significant untapped uranium deposits.
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