Miguel Diaz-Canel He used a private jet with Venezuelan registration again this Wednesday to travel within Cuban territory, this time to go to Santiago de Cuba, as documented in the last few hours by Falcon's profile (@FlconEYES), using the geolocation tool. Flightradar24.
Despite the severe fuel crisis on the island, It has already become customary for the ruler to travel within the country by air, even when it comes to provinces close to Havana.
Falcon ironically noted that Díaz-Canel was not going in "his toy" to Haiti - where remain More than 250 Cubans stranded since the end of February- but the ultra-luxury private jet (#TAXICANEL) goes from "vacilón" to the east.
Although Díaz-Canel had not flown in the jet since March 23, on April 3 he "started his engines" with a test flight and "enjoyed fun", as specified in reference to several trips in a few days by the aforementioned source, who follows the movements of the aircraft to the letter.
In recent days - always keeping in mind the Cubans who remain stranded in Haiti - Falcon has made reference to other flights within the country, which have not been to bring "abandoned Cubans."
In the last few hours, Miguel Díaz-Canel has reviewed on Twitter his participation with Raúl Castro in the transfer and burial ceremony of the Third Front combatants "who fell in the war or died after the triumph."
He also recorded visits to other Santiago municipalities, including Contramaestre.
The question is whether after helicopter crash of the Armed Forces (FAR) that collapsed in the early hours of this Thursday in Santiago de Cuba, and in which at least three people died, Díaz-Canel ventured to return by jet to Havana or if he preferred to do so by road.
Díaz-Canel's "taxi"
And Santiago de Cuba is still far away, but November of last year Díaz-Canel used the jet registration YV659T | 0D8494 on a Havana-Villa Clara flight.
"Although flying this jet costs thousands of dollars, Flightradar24 showed that at least in October the jet was used almost daily for trips within Cuba," Falcon then stressed in one of his publications on the subject.
Another detail indicated by the source is that The aircraft usually turns off the radar upon departure and before reaching its destination.
Last year Díaz-Canel and his wife, Lis Cuesta, They arrived on an official visit to Granada aboard the private jet which would have been given to Cuba by the former Venezuelan dictator, Hugo Chávez, who died in March 2013.
On his visits to Mexico, The ruler has used the same aircraft with Venezuelan registration.
Venezuela gave Cuba at least three Dassault Falcon private jets under the Chávez government. In 2019, Díaz-Canel used the Dassault Falcon 900, with Venezuelan registration YV-2053 and an estimated price of $41 million, to make his first visit to Mexico, which only lasted 24 hours.
Both this and two other Dassault Falcon 50s, with license plates YV-1128 and YV-1129, in the name of the Venezuelan company SATA (Autonomous Air Transport Service), would have maintained their license plates to be able to be repaired in any corner of the world without fear of US sanctions. Cuba only removed the Venezuelan flag from them.
And while Díaz-Canel comes and goes on a Venezuelan jet throughout the national territory, more than 250 Cubans remain stranded in Haiti, a country plunged into violent chaos where their lives are in danger.
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