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.
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