With that said, I present you with some facts to keep in mind, so at the very least, you can say you made a conscious and informed decision about whether show your support and not blame something so easily disguised in a fog of ambiguity.
The Castros literally run Venezuela:
• Last year, Venezuela's former ambassador to the United Nations, Diego Arria, told El Nuevo Herald that "Venezuela is an occupied country. The Venezuelan regime is a puppet controlled by the Cubans. It is no longer Cuban tutelage; it is control."
• According to the Wall Street Journal, "Cuba controls all the levers of state security and intelligence that help chavismo keep a lid on dissent." This means that not only are there Cuban military personnel present in substantial quantities in Venezuela but there are Cubans holding high-ranking positions in the Venezuelan government.
• Maduro was educated and groomed for the position he currently holds in Venezuela at Cuba's special school for political leadership, Escuela Ñico López, in the '80s.
• According to the Washington Times, not only do Maduro and other high-ranking officials travel to Cuba when summoned by the Castro brothers but these officials have been caught on tape reporting to Fidel and Raul. They have been recorded talking about how they planned on following through with Fidel Castro's advice to "get rid of these bourgeois elections because [voters] make mistakes [and] here, with elections the way they are, we could be struck down. They could knock the revolution down."
Eliminating the communist regime in Venezuela will weaken the communist government in Cuba and could finally lead to an end of communism on the island:
• Former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich said in an interview that the unrest in Venezuela "absolutely" can spread to Cuba if those vital oil subsidies are interrupted.
• Venezuela provides Cuba with more than half of its energy. Venezuelan oil is Castro's lifeline. Cut the umbilical cord and change is imminent. Communist Cuba is not in a position to survive another energy shortage.
• It behooves us all as Americans — Republican, Democrat, blanco, negro, chino, o tarru — to be a voice advocating freedom and standing against oppression, no matter where it may occur. But as a Cuban-American living in a city with the highest population of Cubans and Venezuelans in the United States, this particular situation hits closer to home. We are not only united as Latinos but our cultural kinship is one well-documented throughout history. A Venezuelan designed our flag and was promptly executed in front of thousands for fighting the Spanish during the Cuban Revolution for independence. Roberto Torres, a legend of Cuban music, is most famous for his rendition of "Caballo Viejo," a Venezuelan folk song that every Cuban knows by heart. Eight of the 15 paternity suits tu Tio Pepe has had in the past ten years have been filed by Venezuelan FIU students con tremendas nalgas and/or pechugas. Our history runs deep.
This intersecting of our cultures continues to this day. We are literally fighting the same fight against the same enemy regime. It's time that we look beyond the distractions and the bullshit and recognize as a community the same thing those Mexican Spurs fans in San Antonio understood as they stood up for my right to yell obscenities at Manu Ginobili. We are brothers.
Why wait until medical marijuana is legal? 
A 12-year-old girl became known as Loli-chan to thousands of older men. Now 20, she can't shake the name or the fame. 
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