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An intelligence report circulating in Colombia since Nov. 8 attributes “foreign influence from Cuba’s G2” to an alleged plan to tamper with the country’s June 21, 2026, presidential runoff. The man at its center, Carlos Andrés Oyola Tovar, an official with Colombia’s National Intelligence Directorate (DNI), has been arrested in Neiva.
The Colombian outlet Chivas y Crónicas published the document, and journalist Melquisedec Torres summarized it the same day in a thread on X. It names two Cuban agents, identified only as “Raúl” and “Ramón,” and says the operation also had backing from Venezuelan networks and technical help from Russia. Cubanos por el Mundo has not seen the original document, and no Colombian authority has confirmed that it is authentic.
The allegation comes with relations between Bogotá and Havana already badly strained. In July, while still president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella announced he would close Colombia’s embassy in Havana, saying there would be “no ties whatsoever with tyrannies” in Cuba and Nicaragua. Cuba’s Foreign Ministry called the decision “an act of subordination to the United States’ policy of aggression,” El Espectador reported.
A DNI engineer, arrested at a clinic in Neiva
Oyola, a systems engineer, had worked for the DNI since 2024, under President Gustavo Petro. Soldiers from the army’s anti-kidnapping and extortion unit, known as Gaula, backed by investigators from the attorney general’s office, arrested him last weekend at a clinic in Neiva, in Huila department, after several months on the run.
The arrest warrant, issued in May, stems from the alleged doctoring of his graduate-school grades at the National Open and Distance University (UNAD). Prosecutors are investigating him for unauthorized access to a computer system, falsifying a public document, procedural fraud and criminal conspiracy, according to El País of Cali. None of those charges mentions Cuba.
After his arrest, Oyola was taken to Bogotá for a hearing on the legality of his detention and the filing of charges. He refused to accept them. “No, your honor,” he told the judge, according to Noticias Caracol. He has also said that a computer holding intelligence data was stolen from his home, an account that sources quoted by the newspaper Diario del Huila have questioned.
“Raúl” and “Ramón”: the Cuban thread in the report
According to the text Torres circulated, the strategy was run from the Casa de Nariño, the presidential palace, by someone identified as “alias Aureliano,” and was meant “to take Iván Cepeda to a directed victory.” If that failed, the plan was to discredit the results and push for an “institutional rupture.”
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In that scheme, the document places the G2, the common name for the intelligence service of Cuba’s Interior Ministry, among the foreign players with influence over the operation. The report does not say what roles “Raúl” and “Ramón” played, and it offers no public evidence that they took part.
Several DNI officials, the document says, traveled to Russia for training in technology and information operations.
Access to the vote-count software since 2022, the report says
According to the report, Oyola obtained privileged access starting in 2022 to systems run by the National Civil Registry, which organizes Colombian elections, including its preliminary vote-count software, giving him the ability to change figures remotely. The document lays out three scenarios: inflate Cepeda’s numbers; inflate those of Abelardo de la Espriella where he was already strong, then cry fraud; or a combination of the two.
It also describes the alleged placement of more than two poll workers or witnesses sympathetic to Petro’s Pacto Histórico coalition at each polling station. It adds that a police election-risk map was pared down from 36 variables to three so that, according to the document, the operation could concentrate on 17 departments and 36 municipalities.
De la Espriella won the June runoff by less than one percentage point, the narrowest second-round margin in Colombia’s history, according to El Tiempo. The registry said the official count matched the preliminary tally 99.997 percent. Nothing published so far suggests the results were altered.
The G2’s track record in the region
It is not the first such accusation this year. In August, a Bolivian lawmaker accused Cuba’s G2 (in Spanish) of being behind a plan to stage a coup in his country. In Colombia, Petro kept close ties with Havana throughout his term and, before leaving office, announced one last trip to the island (in Spanish).
Cubanos por el Mundo had been following that trail during the campaign. In March, an analysis in these pages argued that Havana saw Iván Cepeda as its last card (in Spanish) for keeping a foothold in Latin America. In May, the site reported on an allegation by the outlet Impacto 247 that the Castro government was trying to sway Colombia’s election (in Spanish) in favor of the Pacto Histórico candidate.
Venezuela offers a documented precedent. A 2019 Reuters investigation found that, under the guidance of Cuban military officers, Caracas turned its military counterintelligence agency into a service devoted to spying on its own armed forces.
Cubanos por el Mundo found no public statement from the Cuban government or the DNI about the report’s references to the G2.
What is confirmed and what remains unproven
- Carlos Andrés Oyola Tovar, a DNI official since 2024, was arrested in Neiva after several months on the run.
- Prosecutors are investigating him for unauthorized access to a computer system, falsifying a public document, procedural fraud and criminal conspiracy.
- An intelligence document circulated by journalist Melquisedec Torres says the election plan had influence from Cuba’s G2 through agents called “Raúl” and “Ramón.”
- No Colombian authority has confirmed the document’s authenticity or any Cuban involvement.
- Oyola did not accept the charges at his charging hearing.
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