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Maduro’s costly serenade for Castro’s birthday
August 19, 2016 at 18:38
When I read this news report in the Venezuelan daily El Nacional, my first reaction was to wonder whether the figures were accurate.
Venezuela is suffering its worst economic crisis in recent memory, but that doesn't seem to have stopped President Nicolas Maduro from spending $375,000 to travel to Cuba with an 80-member delegation — including musicians, dancers, relatives and friends — to celebrate the 90th birthday of Cuba's retired maximum leader Fidel Castro. When I read this news report in the Venezuelan daily El Nacional, my first reaction was to wonder whether the figures were accurate. So I called opposition Congressman Carlos Berrizbeitia, the legislator who had disclosed these figures at a National Assembly session, and asked him how he had come up with his estimate. Berrizbeitia, a member of the National Assembly's ...
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