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Cuba Sending Troops to Venezuela: Prepared for the Disruption of Oil Imports. Is America Prepared? (Video)
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:10
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Cuba Sending Troops to Venezuela: Prepared for the Disruption of Oil Imports
March 18 2014
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 end of Soviet subsidies in 1991 plunged Cuba into a brutal crisis, shrinking the economy by 33 percent and sparking widespread hunger.
Former top Cuban government economist Jesús “Marzo” Fernandez said close Cuban friends working in Venezuela for that country’s state-owned PDVSA oil company have told him Havana has prepared for a sudden stop in Venezuelan oil imports.
The friends said all oil storage facilities on the island, including those set aside for military, government and strategic reserves, were full to the top as of March 4, Fernandez said. Caracas sends Cuba abour 115,000 barrels per day, two-thirds of its consumption.
“They are preparing? No. They are prepared,” added Fernandez, who now lives in Miami. “They won’t be surprised. The Cubans work with a long-distance view.”
Sounds like a view the American leaders need to adopt!
Are you prepared?
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You shaould have Ok’d Keystone.
Or keep fracking till tou wake up the old Yellowstone Cauldron….
Russia, Middle East, Venezuela…one or all could go off line anytime.
More Martial law fuel…