Venezuela, as you know, has more oil than Saudi Arabia. However, engineers in the oil fields were replaced by friends of Chavez and Maduro. When Chavez lost popular support--everyone called him El Loco--he turned to Castro for protection. There are now about 100,000 Cubans in Venezuela. The Cuban military is a special project of the KGB and they are elite forces. They know how to supress a population
Several years ago the former President of Costa Rica, the Nobel prize winning Oscar Arias, said that Venezuela is a colony of Cuba. So Americans now have a more open view into Castro murder and tyranny. Raul is considered more of a butcher than his brother, if that is possible.