They need Cuban Intelligence thugs to keep a lid on things. It comes at a price.
If Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Iran, and other dictatorships are engaged in mutual support. If one falls, it could have a domino effect. I'm sure Trump is studying this closely.
Yes, and some very specific goods and services, too.
They need Cuban Intelligence thugs to keep a lid on things.
Bingo. An ostensibly oil-exporting country is buying it on the market at a loss and not spending it on food and medicine because there's something much more important to them than the welfare of the people: power.
We're pretty much at the end stages of this cruel shell game. If Maduro hasn't oil, he hasn't anything, and the oil he does have is already sold - I note that Reuters is now admitting $60 billion owed, a figure that many in the media have been scoffing at up to now. It's likely at least $25 billion higher, but nobody really knows. What they do know is that the credit spigot has been closed.
Oh, and Maduro is up for re-election tomorrow. How nice.