Cuba after Hugo Chávez
by Carlos Alberto Montaner
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(The Miami Herald) The most complex part of the inheritance left by Hugo Chávez are the relations between Venezuela and Cuba. The existing ones were built on the strange emotional, political and ideological subordination of the Bolivarian leader to Fidel Castro and do not respond to the interests or preferences of the Venezuelans.
In survey after survey, more than 82 percent of Venezuelans (meaning that many of them are pro-Chávez) responded that they don’t want the installation of a political model based on Cuba. Presumably, a similar percentage does not agree that Venezuela should continue to subsidize, with billions of dollars, the pig-headed and unproductive collectivism imposed by the Castro brothers.












