Willy Falcon was born in Cuba but later immigrated the United States, and apparently, he wasn't a big fan of the leader of his homeland. According to the Miami Herald, as soon as Falcon and his partner became the number one smugglers for Colombian cartels, he began to funnel a portion of his massive earnings to an exiled Cuban paramilitary group whose aim was to take down Cuba's president, Fidel Castro, by any means necessary. This money went to weapons and supplies for a group of what can only be called terrorist. Weirdly enough, they were training in the Florida everglades. But how could that be?
It's since been discovered that the group that Falcon was funding had been involved in several assassination plots — failed plots, mind you — backed by the CIA in secret and meant to eliminate Castro. This started during the Cold War and continued well after it was publicly over. When Falcon was stuck in the clink for five years after a 1991 arrest for drug smuggling, for which he was acquitted in 1996, his support for this terrorist organization surely would've stopped. No. Turns out, Falcon was still collaborating with other Cuban exiles involved in the drug scene to keep operations going the whole time he was behind bars. All of this, of course, became a problem for the drug kingpin later on in his life.
