So what was Cuba burning on its embassy roof after Ecuador ordered them thrown out of their country?

 by Monica Showalter

It's not easy being a Cuban agent of subversion in the Western hemisphere these days. Not only is Cuba out of money and falling apart, the glory days of the medical missionaries and the embassy wine parties with the elites abroad while the locals suffer back home are now all drying up.

According to the Associated Press:

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador declared Cuba’s ambassador, Basilio Antonio Gutiérrez, and his diplomatic staff “persona non grata” on Wednesday and gave them 48 hours to leave the South American country.

Ecuador’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the measure was adopted within the framework of international diplomatic law, but didn’t say why they were forcing the diplomats to leave.

 

Shortly after the announcement, a man could be seen on the roof of the Cuban Embassy in Quito burning a bag of papers in a oven. The burning was witnessed by the Associated Press and later posted in a video on social media by Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa, who remarked bluntly: “A paper barbecue.”




Here's the tweet:

So what were these Cuban government officials burning on their rooftop? And why did el presidente think it so important to tweet it?

Did the Cubans have something to hide? Names of agents, payoffs delivered, plans to work with leftist 'revolutionaries' to take over the legislature, narcoboat exposure and involvement with drug-dealing criminal gangs? Ecuador has been tackling those things, even with limited success.

Nations involved in that sort of activity would always rather not let word get out about what they were up to if they took too long to evacuate their embassy -- which might explain why the paper barbecue was going so fiercely up on the embassy roof.

This was a full blown embassy shutdown and expulsion, which in itself was interesting -- put it together with the burning papers and it appears Ecuador knew they were up to something very, very, nefarious.

This wasn't Uncle Sam's doing, either, given that the U.S. doesn't insist that countries cut ties to Cuba in order to talk with or trade with us. Clearly, something was up and it was bad enough to get the Cubans thrown out.

We thought Cuba was a nation with nothing to hide, as the left has insisted, a communist nation that only minded its own business as Big Gringo persecuted it.

In reality, it more likely was a nation under seige by cartels and the government found out that Cubans were a major actor in raining such subversion onto Ecuador. It sounds wild, but every swing to the left, and every swing to the right in the region for the past 60 years or so has always included a 'Cuban calculation' as in, how much trouble might the Cubans stir up with the local leftists, acting as agents of influence through protests, thuggery, and assassination. Ecuador got a load of it, but this time, seems to be striking back by throwing the Cubans out.

Note that back in the mid-2000s, Cuba's main catspaw in the hemisphere, the late Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, working with the Cubans, who served as the 'brains' to the thug Marxist regime, plotted to flood the U.S. with cocaine and other drugs. The news of that came out in 2019, and I wrote about that here.

Ecuador is a beautiful little treasure located in the most spectacularly beautiful part of South America. Its climate is perfect, and its people are wonderful -- look at this Nick Shirley man-on-the-street video of his adventures with an Ecuadorean illegal alien in New York City and tell me this man wouldn't make a great American. It has just one chronic problem -- very weak, very bad government -- corruption, failure of rule of law, general banana-republic nuttiness among its pols that stands out even in a region known for its nutty pols. The architecture itself is shambly even if they try to elect a conservative.

Having spent time in Ecuador, it's sad stuff. They've since elected a conservative leader, Alvaro Noboa, anyway, but he hasn't had an easy time of it, what with drug dealers fattened by the illegal-alien trade spilling into the country from Venezuela and Colombia and creating havoc with their newfound cash, buying off a lot of power, and always aligned with FARC narcoterrorists, Mexican cartels, Venezuelan criminals, and the global left. There have been violent, Mexico-type incidents with car burnings and city shutdowns in that country. A leading presidential candidate was assassinated less than two weeks before elections in 2023 for threatening drug cartels. 

The expulsion of the Cubans not only indicates a government that knows that they were up to something ugly and dangerous, an authentic national security threat, it also indicates that the country has changed and is willing to do something about it -- throwing the Cubans and all their spies and subversives out.

We haven't seen this type of activity for decades, and it suggests Ecuador means to change for good, not letting Cuban subversives, drug lords and spies intimidate them any longer.

If so, it's a positive thing, and puts Ecuador squarely in the league of the rightward swinging nations in the region, who will meet in Miami to figure out a way to stop these national security threats and subversions once and for all. The last thing Latin America needs is more Cubans meddling in their internal affairs.

This may be the opening shot of a bigger strategy, a strategy of ridding the hemisphere of communism and all its evil and impoverishing works, once and for all. Watch for the news from Miami this weekend, because Ecuador will be there, bringing something valuable to the table.

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