Juan Cortez (1960-) was a Yaran revolutionary and a triple agent for the KGB, CIA, and Mossad who wrote the book "El Camino De La Guerrilla," a guide on how to conduct guerrilla warfare.
Biography[]
Juan Cortez was born in Yara in 1960 to a Spanish father and a Russian mother, and he was raised during the early years of Santos Espinosa's communist dictatorship. He served in the Fuerzas Nacionales de Defensa (FND) as a marksman from the age of 18 and had an affair with his female sergeant, producing a son, Juanito. Cortez, inspired by Che Guevara and his foco theory, later traveled to Colombia during the 1980s and did wet work and espionage for FARC for 2 years. He later closed a deal with the Medellin Cartel in exchange for bases, weapons, and products for the guerrillas, establishing his reputation as a veteran mediator. He was later recruited by the Soviet KGB due to his partial Russian heritage, and his plan to invite his son to join him was cut short when his son was killed by Espinosa's army after a protest wen ttoo far.
Cortez, inspired by his son's love for comic books, developed the "Supremo," a backpack missile launcher. He became an alcoholic and went mad due to his regrets over his son's death, and he participated in conflicts around the globe as a military advisor to various guerrilla groups, including the Chechen rebels in the Second Chechen War, the FARC and ELN in Colombia, and the Golden Path during the Second Kyrati Civil War. By 2019, he planned to retire from his life of guerrilla activity, writing a book on "the way of the guerrilla." He met the Movimiento Libertad leader Clara Garcia in Buenos Aires, and she persuaded him to help in her fight to liberate Yara from Anton Castillo's dictatorship. During the Yaran Revolution of 2021, he helped the CIA smuggle the Viviro cancer treatment to the United States, served as Dani Rojas' mentor in becoming a revolutionary, and even gifted her his pet crocodile Guapo.