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Nicolas Maduro recognizes Raul Castro as "big brother" and "protector." Proposes Cuban Ambassador join Maduro's Council of Ministers
On January 20, 2020 Nicolas Maduro at the XX Meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission of the Cuba-Venezuela Integral Cooperation Agreement reaffirmed the colonial status of his government stating, "I've told our older brother and protector, Raúl Castro Ruz, and he agrees. And it has been discussed in this mixed commission and we agree.
The ambassadors are practically part of the Council of Ministers, the ambassador of Cuba has open doors in each ministry to coordinate, to move forward."
Dictators Nicolas Maduro and Raul Castro together.
This is an important statement, but also an understatement, that should not be a surprise to observers of the situation in Venezuela.
In 1992 Hugo Chavez was involved in a failed coup against the government of Andres Perez. Pardoned by Perez's successor, Rafael Caldera, in March 1994 Hugo Chavez made his way to Cuba later that same year where he was received by Fidel Castro as a hero not a failed coup plotter.
Hugo Chavez in 1994 visited Fidel Castro in Cuba
President Caldera, who pardoned Chavez, handed power over to him in 1999. Together with Fidel Castro, as a mentor, Chavez began the process of turning a flawed democratic order into the regime it is today.
Maduro's statement on Monday, was just echoing what Hugo Chávez had already stated on more than one occasion.
Maduro's statement on Monday, was just echoing what Hugo Chávez had already stated on more than one occasion.
In 2000 President Hugo Chávez upon receiving Cuban collaborators announced that "Cuba is the sea of happiness. Venezuela is going there."
In 2007 Chávez had declared that Cuba and Venezuela were a single nation. “Deep down,” he said, “we are one single government.”
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