As opposition leader Juan Guaidó failed to ignite a military uprising in Venezuela this week, his allies in Washington placed the blame not only on troop loyalty toward President Nicolás Maduro but also the alleged presence of Cuban troops in the country. “I think it’s fear of the 20,000 to 25,000 Cuban security forces in the country” that prevented Venezuelan troops from heeding Guaidó’s call, White House national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday. But Cuban officials not only dispute these figures — they say the exact opposite. “There are no troops,” Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s director general of U.S. affairs, told the Associated Press in Washington on Wednesday. “Cuba does not participate in military operations nor in security operations in Venezuela.” Accusations of foreign involvement in Venezuela’s crisis […]