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| The Foresight Method |
The "Foresight" section serves as the site's "About" page and begins by discussing the Foresight Method, which is analysis that helps define goals (needs) and the risks and opportunities presented by measuring and comparing demographics, economics, resources and well being.
Forsightcuba believes that:
"Cuba is in a deep crisis, caused by erroneous policies, totally disconnected from rational socio-economic foundations and with an enormous cost for the people of Cuba" and goes to state that their project "tries to raise awareness about the challenges, and contribute information for better decision making".
In short, they are not supporters of the current Cuban government and this outlook influences any articles they have on Venezuela its Boliviarian regime. That being said, I don't detect, so far, an overly propagandist or emotional style and believe a lot of the information gathered is informative.
A map and more details on the next page.
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Ejercito Cubano en Venezuela
Information below all from The Cuban Army in Venezuela post.
The article is from mid-2017, is "taken from non-official sources" and summarizes another article. Unfortunately, the link to that article is broken.
Composition of the "Cuban Army of Occupation" in Venezuela:
Structure of the Cuban occupation army in Venezuela
Cuba started sending troops in 2011 and by January 2012 the force had the following composition:
Officers:
• 2 Brigade Generals, (1 in Fuerte Tiuna, another in Barquisimeto),
• 4 colonels,
• 8 lieutenant colonels,
• 6 frigate captains (Note: Naval captains? probably officers for Naval Infantry),
• 25 junior officers.
• 4,500 infantrymen Organized in 8 battalions of 500 troops, plus a battalion stationed in Fuerte Tiuna.
Weapons carried and held by Cuban troops:
• AK-A-103 and AK-109 equivalent to the Belgian FAL
• 50mm Tropv R1V rockets.
• Kalisnef-120 shells against cars.
• Mortars using Katiuska M30- Kamarakov grenades.
With an independent situational room installed in Fuerte Tiuna (Retrieval Service) with encrypted communications over with the Command Operations Center of Valle Picadura in Havana.
These troops are rotated from Cuba constantly, by a landing strip located in Apure, and via Maracaibo airport. Note: Aprue is a state in the far south, on the border with Columbia.
The article then give biographical information of senior Cuban officers and lists many junior ones by name. Describing junior infantry officers:
"They are expert officers in intelligence, counterintelligence, sabotage, and sabotage.."
and
"These special Cuban mobile agents have 12 points of concentration in Caracas, located in exit and entrance stations of the Metro.
• Two important in the East: In Metro the two Ways and Unicentro the Marquis.
• Two in the West: West Park and Capitol.
• Three in the Southeast: La Bandera-Roosevelt, UCV and the Valley.
They coordinate with the 70 command posts located in the highly urbanized (poor areas?) residential areas of Caracas (Plan Guaraira Repano)".
Their mission (presumably the Cuban mobile units and not the two infantry brigades) is to blend in while wearing Venezuelan "patriot" uniforms.
They are strategically located around Venezuela, positioned in such a way to protect Caracas from any rebel unit.
Iranian Base??
This is the first mention of any Iranian presence in Venezuela I have come across. Here is a search string for Iranian missiles in Venezuela. Seems that about 7 - 8 years ago a German newspaper reported the Iranians were sending missiles. In the search there is a CNN story in which the US denies that was happening.
"The Iranian base that is located in Zuata, Monagas Municipality of Anzoátegui State is operated by Iranian aeronautical engineers, and have Sheralab Type 3 missiles (Shahab-3?) in operating condition with a range of 1,480 km and also 3 Alghady-110 (Ghadr-110?) missiles with a range of 2,500 km type. At present, 6 new Alghadv-110 missiles with a range of 2,800 km are also installed in Paraguaná"
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