Valladares uncovers the corrupt pot in South Florida

# Valladares uncovers the corrupt pot in South Florida

By Magencio.

These days, a video complaint[1] published on an anti-Cuban YouTube channel has caused a great stir in South Florida that has the entire Miami hate mafia on edge and threatens to splash the highest levels, even endangering the presidential dreams of characters such as the incoming Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who still hopes of ever getting to command the Oval Room of the White House.

The complaint was filed by one Armando Valladares against another Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat. In it, Valladares accuses Boronat of having embezzled 30 million dollars from the US treasury destined for the destabilization of Cuba. He also accuses him of having swindled Cuban companies and citizens out of millions of dollars in donations for the “cause”.

For those unfamiliar with U.S. anti-Cuban policy, it must be said that Valladares and Boronat are two well-known CIA agents, the former as a fake diplomat and poet in a wheelchair and the latter as the leader of a group with the pretentious name of “Directorio Democrático Cubano” (Cuban Democratic Directorate).

Valladares' denunciation is based on public sources: the tax returns of Boronat's NGO to the IRS, the U.S. tax authority, obtained through the website propublica.org This is hardly a well-kept secret. In fact, things like those revealed by Valladares (and much, much more serious) were made public by the YouTube channel El Guerrero Cubano[2] as early as March 2023.

However, Valladares' data are devastating: For example, expenses of almost 600 thousand dollars in travels in one year, an exorbitant amount even when it comes to first class tickets and accommodations in 5-star hotels. In each year reported, expenses in this area did not fall below $100,000 and were generally much higher.

As far as salaries are concerned, the amounts reported are impressive.For example, in one of the years, USD 796,349 was reported and subcontracted personnel (not included in the regular payroll) amounted to USD 346,799. The salaries of Boronat and his wife did not go below USD 100,000 and were often much higher.

The reports to the IRS show expenses that are difficult to reconcile with the NGO's declared purpose of “promoting democracy IN CUBA”, such as money transfers to Slovakia and “humanitarian aid” to Central America (more than 172 thousand dollars).

The expenditure on telephone calls is noteworthy -- almost 50 thousand dollars a year (Valladares himself ironically asks whether these are calls within the solar system or outside it). As for office expenses, in one year they amounted to 524 thousand dollars.

To this must be added, for example, the expenditure in 2006 and 2007 of almost one and a half million dollars in “short wave transmissions to Cuba”, that is, radio programs that nobody on the island listens to, neither today nor 20 years ago. In fact, there is very little in the Cuban Democratic Directorate's reports that is spent on the island, in reality Boronat's operation is a web of foreign propaganda and theft of U.S. taxpayer money -- beyond the dubious legitimacy of funding regime change policies abroad.

Clearly, Boronat, as reported to the IRS, has been engaged in justifying money movements of a different nature, i.e., in money laundering.

“How was the money used, where did it go, how was it spent,” Valladares asks with false innocence. In fact, his denunciation is just the tip of the iceberg, because according to what was denounced by the channel El Guerrero Cubano almost two years ago and with sources similar to those of Valladares, Boronat manages a whole web of phantom companies at his service.

According to that channel, the network consists of the companies Freedom Synergy Corporation; OGBCONNECT LLC; Directorio Democrático Cubano (analyzed by Valladares); Symbioslink LLC; Comité Organizador Patriótico Inc; Frente Hemisférico para la Libertad Inc; Asamblea de la Resistencia Cubana Inc and Salvemos a Honduras Inc.

Complementing Valladares, the Cuban Warrior[3] points out that a front (or shell) company is an entity that, although formally incorporated, does not carry out legitimate business activities. For example, Boronat's company Freedom Synergy Corp, despite not having registered any activity, between 2020 and 2023 (in 4 years), received a total of USD 1,027,599.

But, it should be added, Boronat is one more in the long list of corrupt South Florida mobsters entrenched in the networks of political interference in the United States. Without going any further, we have the whistleblower himself, Armando Valladares,[4] who at the beginning of this century was the main guarantor of the Miami investment group VFM dedicated to raising capital for the City of Cinema and the Arts in Cantabria, Spain, which was never built but which left behind a string of swindled investors.

To that group belong characters such as Rosa María Payá, Alexander Otaola, José Hassan Nieves, Ninoska Pérez and a long list of etceteras that reach the highest echelons of the Cuban “exile” in the United States, such as the case of Democratic Senator Bob Menéndez, considered one of the most corrupt legislators in modern times, considered one of the most corrupt legislators in modern times, in whose house the authorities seized hundreds of thousands of dollars in jewelry and gold bars, which he first said belonged to his wife and later clarified that they were due to the profound lack of confidence of the Cubans towards the banks.

By the way, the current Secretary of State, Mario Rubio, over the years signed together with Menendez countless anti-Cuba bills, and when the scandal broke, he limited himself to admitting that the charges against him were “nasty” and difficult to refute, but that his case should not be heard in the Senate but in a court of law. “...in America guilt is decided by a jury, not by politicians fearful that their party will lose a Senate seat,” he said. What Rubio did not mention was his own fear of losing a rabidly anti-Cuban partner in the Senate.

The situation of characters like Rubio[5] recalls the famous scene in the third part of The Godfather (1990) in which Don Corleone, played by Al Pacino, says: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in”. The famous mafioso, after many years of efforts, charity work, public relations, bribes and a series of other more or less legal tricks, thought he had succeeded in making his criminal network respectable when the other Cosa Nostra partner families pushed him back into the quagmire from which all his power and influence came.

It is a fact that U.S. policy against Cuba is deeply corrupt, always has been, even since the times of Batista, when the Italian and Jewish mafias of the United States had a free hand in the hotels and casinos of the island, and became even more corrupt with the business of anti-Cuban subversion. The mixture of private interests and illegal activities (“covert actions”) has ended up putting the foreign policy of the empire in the hands of mafia interests.

Valladares' “revelations”, which have been open secrets for a long time in South Florida, are a sign of imperial decomposition. Valladares would hardly come out on his own to say the things he has said about Boronat.

Is the CIA preparing in its own way for the coming change of administration?

Elon Musk, Trump's current super advisor and co-director of the Department of State Efficiency, cannot remain unmoved by the spectacle of an anti-Cuban policy that, although fierce and very harsh against the island's population, is a permanent source of destabilization internally and is also counterproductive politically. It does not look good in the eyes of the public, especially those who voted for Trump, for the IRS to accept tax returns as scandalous as those of Boronat's NGO.

In a context of imperial decline, Trump seeks to tighten U.S. control over the hemisphere, and especially over our region, but relies on local assets, both in Miami and in Cuba and the rest of Latin America, which are highly unreliable, as well as corrupt.


[1]
https://youtu.be/JZ7cXdQDQS4

[2]
https://youtu.be/Sl9B-JdwGsE

[3]
https://youtu.be/eVK5p6qEMYk

[4]
On this page you will find links to everything you should know about Valladares (but were afraid to ask).
http://www.cubadebate.cu/especiales/2019/10/20/armando-valladares-farsa-y-fraude-de-un-disidente-cubano-videos/

[5]
Marco Rubio, a danger to Cuba, Latin America and the U.S.
https://pastebin.com/Jz32r9t5