U.S. State Department’s ShareAmerica platform reports “Cuban, Venezuelan regimes put officials over citizens.”
ShareAmerica is the platform used by the U.S. Department of State to share engaging stories about American life, culture, and society as well as the values that guide United States foreign policy and international relations. The site is managed by the Bureau of Global Public Affairs within the U.S. State Department. On July 21, 2025 they put out a one pager titled, ” Cuban, Venezuelan regimes put officials over citizens” that provides a wealth of accurate information on the state of affairs in Cuba and in Venezuela. Over the past five days the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs has engaged in effective public diplomacy by providing some basic facts, together with powerful images.
“The Cuban regime spent 11 times more propping up its failing tourism industry than on healthcare and education combined in 2024. Empty hotels get electricity—while Cuban children go without medicine and milk. It’s disgraceful that the regime deprives its future generations of a future. But they try to cement a future for their corrupt officials who are building hotels and other facilities they can privatize to themselves when the regime falls.” – Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Tweeted over X on July 25, 2025
“Cuba & Venezuela’s economic crises aren’t accidental—they’re engineered by their regimes. Corruption, propaganda, and repression keep them afloat. Families face hunger, blackouts, and fear.” – Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Tweeted over X on July 24, 2025
“Cuba isn’t open for business—it’s rigged for the regime cronies. Cuba forces private foreign companies into joint ventures with the regime, takes at least 60% of the profits, and holds the rest hostage. And it rarely pays its bills. No investor wants that. Cuban corruption, not the outside world, is scaring money away.” – Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Tweeted over X on July 23, 2025
“The Maduro regime in Venezuela remains in place despite being overwhelmingly voted out of office in 2021. It survives because Cuban security officials monitor and intimidate Venezuelan officers. Because they fear their own military, the regime increased military spending 100% more than on healthcare. Hospitals went dark and doctors lacked basic supplies. The regime spends money to protect and entrench its autocratic leaders at the expense of the Venezuelan people.” – Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Tweeted over X on July 22, 2025
“The unelected, dictatorial Cuban and Maduro regimes blame the world for their incompetence and failures. But these regimes run on corruption, theft, and economic chaos. It’s long past time to hold them accountable.” – Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Tweeted over X on July 21, 2025
The State Department does not use the word “kleptocracy”, but their one pager on the Cuban and Venezuelan regimes describes two of them. A kleptocracy is defined as “a society or system ruled by people who use their power to steal their country’s resources.” It is organized corruption on a grand scale, by political leaders for their personal enrichment. Cuba’s kleptocracy funnels power to a ruling elite, controlling the economy without oversight. This system relies on crime, fraud, and money laundering, while ordinary Cubans face deepening poverty. The pattern has been repeated on a larger scale, and in a shorter time period in Venezuela, with the help of Cuban government agents.
The Center has called out the Cuban dictatorship’s kleptocrat nature, and it has also repeatedly warned about undue Cuban influence in Venezuela.
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