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Venezuela presidential candidate vows to halt oil aid to Cuba
Published on March 19, 2013 Email To Friend    Print Version

By Caribbean News Now contributor

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan presidential candidate Henrique Capriles on Monday said he would end the country’s shipments of subsidized oil to Cuba, while at the same time referring to acting President Nicolas Maduro as a puppet of Havana.

"The giveaways to other countries are going to end. Not another drop of oil will go toward financing the government of the Castros," Capriles said.

"Nicolas is the candidate of Raul Castro; I'm the candidate of the Venezuelan people," Capriles said during a speech to university students.

He said halting cheap oil sales to Cuba would free up resources to boost public employee salaries by 40 percent.

Venezuela provides close to 100,000 barrels per day of oil to Cuba in exchange for a range of services, including doctors that run free health clinics in slums and rural areas.

Supporters say it has helped expand access to health care, while critics call it a mere subsidy to the Castro government.

Although focusing primarily on Cuba, Capriles’s remarks about ending “giveaways to other countries” are not likely to bring much comfort to a number of Caribbean governments that have come to rely on cheap oil from Venezuela under the PetroCaribe agreement created by former president Hugo Chavez.
 
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Peter:

I doubt that the oppopsition will have a look in. Electronic voteing with rigged computer boards, will register many votes against as votes for.

With the Cubans supervising the elections with some 2000 odd supervisers at the polling stations, and Cuban troops to help keep order, and 45,000 Cuban teachers, nurses and doctors bending the ears of voters. How can the opposition stand a chance.

The Castro government will never release the hold on Venezuela, Cuba would go down the drain in six months without that oil.

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