Venezuela Socialist Party Deputy Meets Castro in Show of Unity on Cuba Trip

US News ^ | 6/07/19 | SARAH MARSH

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HAVANA (Reuters) - Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party Vice President Diosdado Cabello met with Cuban Communist Party chief Raul Castro on Friday in Havana in a show of unity as the United States steps up pressure on the governments of the allied nations.

In a news conference at the Havana airport, Cabello said they had discussed preparations for the Sao Paulo forum of leftist Latin American and Caribbean groups in Caracas next month and how to better integrate their two nations.

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Cuban Communist Party deputy leader Jose Ramon Machado Ventura took part in the meeting with Cabello, who had earlier on his two-day trip to Havana also met separately with Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.

"We need to be united because we have a very powerful enemy in common," Cabello told reporters.

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However, analysts say Cuba, which receives subsidized oil from Venezuela in exchange for exports of Cuban professional services, has an economic interest in the Socialist Party staying in power. The Venezuelan opposition has said it would revise that deal.

How about that. Socialists love the oil and loot.

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Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Friday Cuba would have a role to play in Venezuela's "return to democracy" after holding the second bilateral meeting with her Cuban counterpart Rodriguez in a month.

LMAO. This is another example why no one takes Canada seriously.

[Huskrrrr]

Dumb and dumber

[bitt]

p

[TigersEye]

Without capitalism socialism can’t afford to buy a new rice cooker.

[Billthedrill]

...we have a very powerful enemy in common...

Yeah. Starvation.

[McGruff]

If he’s smart he’d stay there. With a bag of cash.