U.S.-Cuba rapprochement exposes Venezuela's Maduro


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Dec 2014

CARACAS (Reuters) - Even as Cuba and the United States try to bury 50 years of enmity, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro has seemed to be going in the other direction, vilifying "insolent Yankees" at rallies and threatening to cut ties completely.

Fellow leftists Cuba and Venezuela are arguably the most unconditional allies in Latin America, but Cuban President Raul Castro's move to rapprochement with the old "imperialist" enemy contrasts with Maduro's fury at U.S. plans for sanctions against his own government.

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