The death of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez on March 5th may ALSO spell the end of Communism is Cuba, because Chavez supported the Castro regime in a way that Venezuela–itself having money problems–cannot really afford, and Chavez’s replacement, probably Nicolás Maduro, may not be willing to do the same.

Venezuela sold Cuba more than 100,000 barrels of oil a day provided at reduced prices–oil they could easily have sold elsewhere for much more. In fact, Cuba received so much oil that it is believed to REsell 40% of it.
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On the morning of November 22, 1963, the day Kennedy was killed, Fidel Castro ordered a senior intelligence officer who was monitoring CIA radio communications to concentrate on "any little detail, any small detail from Texas." Four hours latest, the news of Kennedy’s assassination was broadcast. Did Castro know about this ahead of time? It’s been assumed that the Mafia played a major role in the killing of JFK and the Mafia had certainly infiltrated Cuba.
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Two Miami talk show hosts managed to call Fidel Castro and chew him out on the air, before he hung up on them. They’ve been fined $4,000 by the FCC and plan to protest this by paying in pennies, so they’re asking all their listeners to send in one cent.

Jane Sutton writes in worldtribune.com that Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero, hosts of “The Morning Joker” show on Spanish-language radio station WXDJ-FM, plan to deliver 400,000 pennies in person to the Federal Communications Commission. Santos says, “We prank-called a head of state in a country that is considered hostile to the United States. He’s a violator of human rights and they’re fining us $4,000. We just find it absurd.”
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