HAVANA – At least three flights Commercial flights, without prior programming, would have left Havana today for Caracas, and the fourth flight was preparing to take off, informed THE AMERICAS DAILYa source from the island.
“I cannot confirm whether they were carrying passengers or not, nor what they were carrying or what the purpose of these flights would be,” the source explained.
The first plane, the Conviasa A340 executive plane that President Miguel Díaz-Canel normally flies on, left Havana and landed in Caracas this morning. The second plane, rented from Turkish Airline, also left the Cuban capital for Caracas, where it arrived at midday. The third plane, from Cubana de Aviación, left Havana after 1 p.m.
According to the source, at the time of sharing this information, a fourth aircraft would have been preparing to leave Cuba for Venezuela.
At a time when a political earthquake is taking place in the South American nation, after the ruling party headed by Nicolás Maduro claimed victory in the election result on Sunday, July 28, without giving the possibility of access to the final count of the voting records, the fact that unscheduled flights between Havana and Caracas are taking place is a reason for countless questions to arise.
The Maduro regime has unleashed intense repression in the country in response to the reactions of manifest discontent from the population that demands the right to have the will expressed at the ballot box respected.
The day after the election, opposition leader María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia, the candidate for the presidency, offered at a press conference the results obtained from the minutes that gave González Urrutia more than 6.2 million votes, whose advantage over Nicolás Maduro made him the president-elect of the South American nation.
Cuba, along with Russia and a few other allies of the Caracas dictatorship, have shown support for Maduro; however, the United States, some seven Latin American nations, including leftist governments such as Chile, Colombia and Brazil, as well as the OAS, the European Union, the IDEA group, the Socialist International and other authoritative voices, demand that the Maduro regime publish the voting records for the transparency of the process.
The political instability in Caracas and the obvious illegitimacy of the election result raise questions about the unscheduled flights that suddenly left Havana for Caracas. What the aircraft are carrying; how urgent is Díaz-Canel to send support to Maduro and what kind of support are some of the hypotheses that arise. The reality of the reason for these trips will be known as the severe crisis of governability that the tottering Maduro regime is facing today is clarified and resolved; perhaps Havana will consider offering some response.
