: Cuba capitalized on Chávez's vulnerability to plant Cuban babalawos (Santería priests) across various levels of the Venezuelan public administration.
The book also reveals how occultism served as a mechanism of control, with babalawos helping to maintain power over politicians, military officials, party members, state institutions, and other government actors. By intertwining politics with supernatural belief, the Chavista movement created a system where questioning the leader became not just treason but sacrilege—a transgression against divine authority itself. el libro los brujos de chavez exclusive
Fidel Castro systematically sent Cuban babalawos (Santería priests) to Venezuela. These priests were placed within state companies, ministries, and the military. : Cuba capitalized on Chávez's vulnerability to plant