Cuba is highly dependent on Venezuela’s economic assistance to social programs

Cuba economic freefall follows dependency on Soviets or Chavez for aid cash

Chavez health crisis has dependent Cubans on edge

AFP

Cuba was on edge as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez underwent more cancer surgery Tuesday, with many here worried that if he dies, deeply dependent Cuba will plunge into economic disarray. “Venezuela today represents what the Soviet Union used to until 1990,” said Oscar Espinosa Chepe, a dissident.