CUBA
Maduro’s fall puts Havana on high alert
Oil tankers docked in Matanzas Bay, northern Cuba. Trump says the island will receive “no more” oil or money from Venezuela. Photo: Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock
When the US military attacked Venezuela earlier this month and captured Nicolás Maduro, the political shock reverberated as strongly in Havana, 2,000 kilometers away, as it did in Caracas.
The Cuban regime is joined at the hip with Venezuela, being involved in many of its day-to-day operations in fields such as energy, intelligence, security and even internal politics, as shown by the 32 Cuban officers who died during Maduro’s capture — who were, according to some accounts, the only military personnel in Caracas to actually resist the US operation…
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