Venezuela, Cuba's best friend, and vice versa. But since the historic announcement in Havana, Nicolás Maduro seems a little alone. In 2013, while visiting Cuba, the successor of Hugo Chávez, precisely evoked the deep relationship between the two countries.
"We spent five hours talking with Fidel, we remember the Commander Chavez, to remind ourselves how both of them, they have built a relationship that goes beyond a strategic alliance, which is a brotherly relationship," avit Nicolás Maduro said then.
Raúl Castro recalled his last round Sunday in Havana at the summit of the ALBA, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, an anti-imperialist regional bloc created in 2004 by Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro to oppose the great neighbor the north. We are only two days of the announcement of thaw between the US and Cuba.
"Our partnership represents a real alternative to the economic and social model claimed hegemonic and now plunged into a crisis with no apparent end," said Raúl Castro.
The link between the two countries is actually not ideological. Every day, Cuba receives between 90,000 and 100,000 cheap Venezuelan oil barrels. Against part fixed, the island sends doctors to Venezuela. Still, the Cuban economy depends heavily on Venezuelan oil while Caracas is facing plummeting oil prices on the international market.
The oil export constitutes 96% of the Venezuelan currency resources. And even if the country is home to the largest black gold reserves in the world, the Venezuelan government has announced budget cuts. The inflation rate has not been published for three months, but in August it was 63.4%. This is one of the highest inflation rate in the world.
Two days before the announcement of the thaw between the US and Cuba, the Venezuelan president publicly mocked the sanctions passed by Congress against Venezuelan officials accused of violating the human rights of anti-government protesters. For 4 years, the two countries have no diplomatic in their respective embassies, as diplomatic relations, they are limited to trade.
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