Couldn't happen to a nicer member of the Axis of El Vil:
As political violence in Venezuela rolls on, Cubans say they are hearing reports that Havana is making energy or military preparations for a possible disruption of its tight alliance with the South American nation.
Cuba’s stagnant economy depends overwhelmingly on Venezuelan subsidies estimated at well over $6 billion a year — even more than the former Soviet Union once provided to the Caribbean island.
“If something ugly happens in Venezuela, we are fried like in the Special Period,” said Havana teacher Yadiel Ramirez.
The special period was the time after Soviet subsidies ended after 1991 and before Hugo Chavez stepped in to prop of the socialist paradise of Cuba.
If the Cubans were smart, they'd be doing what Iran is doing--sending security specialists to help Venezuela's Maduro put down the unrest. The difference between the Cuba-Venezuela relationship and Iran-Syria is that Venezuela has the money and not Cuba.
But the skills of oppression are more understood in Cuba.
No worries. I'm sure John Kerry is on top of the bubbling crisis. He's the master of his diplomatic domain.
