[codeadict]

Neither Cuba or Venezuela held elections for a while and they put in jail or disappear anybody that says the minimum word about the ruling government, not even fighting just saying anything. (source born and raised in Cuba and all my family lives there, just this week one teacher got 10 years in prison for writing something about the president ). Cuba had oil from Venezuela and instead of using it for the actual people and electricity, they were selling it to third party countries to enrich GAESA the company of the Castro family that even the president of Cuba has no control over. So the people are no worse now with the US tensions, everybody there wants a little help to end the suffering caused by commies for years.

[lovich]

If they had food and fuel previously, and now don’t because of US tensions, then I think definitionally they are worse off.

[burnt-resistor]

That's my point. Regardless of moralizing judgments about which country is more violent, corrupt, or morally "superior", they didn't follow the USA program and suffered the wrath of telling a fragile ego man being told "no thank you". America behaves like gangster and is no better, it merely follows might makes right while lecturing everyone else how everyone else "should" behave.