ECONOMIC WARFARE:​DRUG TRAFFICKING AND MEDICARE FRAUD

Drug Trafficking Continues – In 2016, Panamanian authorities captured a ship with 401 bricks of cocaine coming from Cuba.

The Castro regime’s involvement in international drug trafficking has been well documented to date back to the 1970s, but continues to today.  These operations are handled by a special department within the Ministry of Interior under the code name MC which stands for Moneda Convertible (Hard Currency).  The operations and history of this department were documented by Pullitzer prize winning journalist, Andres Oppenheimer. 

​”Castro and Cocaine” – PBS Documentary Highlights Regime’s Drug Trafficking Record

Through DEA surveillance tapes and interviews with former Cuban officials and drug-runners, FRONTLINE investigates how Castro used drug smuggling as a political weapon, to “poison” the US, while enriching his regime.  The investigation shows how Castro worked with the Medellin Cartel since the late 1970s.

The Cuban Government and Multi-Million Dollar Medicare Fraud in South Florida

The dilapidated state of the Cuban economy has left the Cuban government scrambling for ways to obtain hard currency. Cuba has contrived ways to benefit from leasing doctors, nurses, teachers, and security agents abroad; more recently, Cuba has also found ways to capitalize on large-scale Medicare fraud, possibly committing economic warfare on the United States.  As of today, there are a number of fugitives living in Havana, accused by the US of committing hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicare fraud.  One interesting case is that of Lieutenant Colonel Renier Vicente Rodriguez Fleitas, who served in Regime’s Armed Forces in Angola and the Congo.  The Lieutenant Colonel has lived in South Florida for the past 15 years, while he traveled to Cuba every year since the time that he had left the Island. Furthermore, Rodriguez Fleitas, at the very time that his company was committing Medicare fraud, was actually living in Cuba, during an 8-month “visit.” 

Plundering America: Economic Warfare by Castro Regime Against the US

After many years of opposing the Cuban Adjustment Act, the Regime found a way to turn it into a Trojan Horse.  A year long Sun Sentinel investigation found money stolen in the United States streaming back to Cuba, and a revolving door that allows thieves to come here, make a quick buck and return. The Regime protects all such activities and criminals.  As per the Oppenheimer report, these activities are fully compatible with the  mission of Ministry of Interiors’ MC Department.