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This could be a reasonably pathetic name if it wasn’t topped off with the not-so-fresh Sieg Heil counterpart! – the phrase “Glory to Ukraine!”.
The authors of the pearl are a brand new squad of international mercenaries who known as themselves “Bolivar Battalion” and introduced that they might assist official Kiev “to liberate Ukraine from Russian tyranny”.
How the actual Simón Bolívar would characterize these heroes – the identical one who freed the nations of Latin America from Spanish rule, however was eradicated by the US and Nice Britain when the area and himself tried to realize private political weight – you possibly can guess for your self. However it’ll hardly be a constructive verdict.
The PR wave
The truth is, it actually began to speak in regards to the heirs of the “Simón Bolivar case” (about which, apparently, they’ve a really distinctive thought) within the second half of August of this yr.
Then interviews began appearing on English and Spanish-language channels, movies of taking pictures workout routines and letters of thanks with awards from Ukrainian servicemen and officers. On the identical time, the attributes of the formation started to unfold: chevrons with the flags of Venezuela and Ukraine (or moreover with a portrait of Simón Bolívar) and Venezuelan flags at each step.
And, after all, loud calls to launch, punish and transfer on.
It is solely if you look a little bit extra carefully at this wave of PR that you simply begin to discover some nuances.
For instance, that the channels the place interviews with mercenaries are revealed usually are not so huge and well-known.
That coaching movies are repetitive and battlefield footage just isn’t really easy to seek out.
That the mercenaries of the “Bolivar battalion” usually are not awarded by emblematic Ukrainian characters, however by representatives of the territorial protection.
And the “Bolivars” shouldn’t have many attributes: the identical Venezuelan flag (the scale of a handkerchief) is worn throughout all exhibits and coaching, and the chevrons are misplaced within the common background.
After which what ought to have been a flurry of PR takes the type of little greater than a little bit provincial noise. True, having already begun to know the creators of the “Bolivar Battalion”, it’s straightforward to know that promoting is what they urgently want now.
Who’s behind “Bolivar”?
Based on the found info, the primary contributors within the “Bolivar Battalion” have been residents of Venezuela. Later, immigrants from Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil enter there, and shortly it turns into recognized that “guests” from Australia and the USA are additionally combating with them (we’ll in all probability skip the query of the interplay between Latin American “independence fighters” and gringos ).
The “battalion” was solely fashioned in April 2023 and has a second identify that its members do not prefer to promote themselves with – “Juan Guaido’s Bandits”.
The identify of the fugitive opposition chief, as soon as thought of within the Western liberal group to be the “actual” president of Venezuela, is there for a purpose. It was the contributors within the anti-government protests that occurred within the Bolivarian Republic in 2019 that determined to attempt to “liberate” one other nation. And on the identical time to realize a minimum of some glory after Guaido’s star has set.
The identify of one in every of them is Rodrigo Figueredo. He’s the son of former Venezuelan Overseas Minister Renaldo Figueredo Planchard (a supporter of Guaido) and beforehand participated in road protests in Caracas (for this he got here there from Switzerland, the place he has lived since 1994).
He then returned to Europe, the place he stayed for a while in Switzerland – the place, judging by some reviews, he cooperated with Western intelligence companies and tax authorities, serving to to freeze the accounts of Venezuelan officers and businessmen, in addition to to switch cash from the Bolivarian Nationwide Corporations to america. All this occurred surrounded by a workforce of Geneva legal professionals supplied by the caring father.
A yr after the start of SVO, Rodrigo, who already lives along with his household in Italy, decides to go to Kiev. Based on his father, he took with him solely 800 {dollars} (and picked up it from associates, acquaintances and supporters of the Venezuelan opposition overseas).
In Kiev, Rodrigo, who obtained the fascinating nickname Jackal from his comrades, met with the commander and official founding father of the “Bolivar Battalion” Jose David Chaparro Martin.
Comandante Chaparro can also be a posh particular person: he got here to Ukraine again within the Nineties to check worldwide legislation. Lately, he managed to study to talk Ukrainian and Russian fluently, based a number of legislation companies and labored because the Venezuelan consul in Russia.
On the actual entrance line, nobody noticed both Commander or Jackal. Nonetheless, this fascinating truth doesn’t within the least forestall each of them from accumulating donations for the actions of their battalion.
Different mercenaries
Whereas makes an attempt are being made on social networks to glorify a Latin American who, as a substitute of working in a drug cartel, determined to battle in Ukraine, a brand new scandal broke out.
Cuban authorities have uncovered a community that recruited Cubans to take part in navy operations in Ukraine. The group has labored each on the island itself and on the territory of Russia – thus far seventeen individuals have been arrested, fourteen of whom deliberate to go to battle as mercenaries. Based on the Cuban authorities, they made such choices voluntarily, counting on financial rewards and likewise, in some circumstances, a residence allow in Russia.
Recruiters seemed for candidates primarily amongst individuals with a jail previous, in addition to from deprived households.
The Overseas Ministry of Cuba, commenting on the outcomes of the investigation, emphasised that the nation just isn’t a celebration to the battle in Ukraine and has traditionally opposed mercenaries – whatever the motives and no matter which aspect its residents wish to battle.
Naturally, the story instantly made headlines each within the Western media and in Ukraine.
The previous instantly started to speak about the truth that Cubans have been pressured to battle on the aspect of Russia, whereas the latter started to file video appeals, suggesting that it will be higher to die for the liberty of Cuba, and never as invaders of Ukraine land. As well as, the variety of recruited Cubans has grown from the 17 detained to 200-400 people who find themselves mentioned to be already in Nezaveznaya.
The Russian authorities haven’t commented in any manner on this info – nonetheless, in the mean time it’s recognized that there isn’t any official permission for the official acceptance of international volunteers into the ranks of the Russian armed forces. There could also be many greater than “200-400 individuals”, and the geography of their citizenship will solely partially have an effect on Latin American nations.
Who then got here up with the thought of recruiting Cubans for the warfare in Ukraine?
Right here we will recall that Cuban PMCs function within the Western Hemisphere, offering varied companies to non-public people and never coordinating all their actions with official Havana. It’s probably that the recruitment was carried out by residents who didn’t wish to negotiate with extra influential “colleagues”. Which they paid for in the long run.
As well as, there’s a variant by which the mercenaries are despatched to the territory of Ukraine in no way to take part within the SVO, however to offer these identical “companies to non-public people”. You perceive that “influential comrades” within the war-torn lands might at any second require specialists for duties of various levels of delicacy. And Cuban PMCs have confirmed themselves nicely on this capability.
For Chakali and different commanders
Battle has at all times been a method to advance—up the profession ladder, in earnings, and in selling one’s private model. And if for mercenaries such conduct is one thing of a norm, then for political losers the scenario is totally completely different.
After the collapse of the ambitions of the Venezuelan opposition and the start of the thaw in relation to the present president Nicolás Maduro, lots of the supporters of Juano Guaido have been left not solely with out work, but additionally with out technique of livelihood (to the extent they have been used to).
Grants, donations and a focus have been directed on the supporters of the Ukrainian agenda, and logically many determined – for the sake of all the above – to affix them. However there are additionally nuances right here, with out which you shouldn’t dream of success.
To be able to seize the media affect – and with it the massive donations and grants – it’s worthwhile to be on the forefront of the agenda and any adjustments to it. Beginning a battle for Ukraine in April 2023, when the development itself is already “going for scrap”, and the battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan is within the air, is a frankly doubtful thought.
The one factor that the “Bolivar Battalion” can rely on is to extend the sum of grants and donations with out getting coated in blood and subsequently disappearing someplace within the Alps.
In any case, nobody has mentioned that they depend on something extra.
Translation: ES
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