Mark Warner: “Venezuela would send Cuba about 30,000 barrels of oil a day.”

“Maduro doubled down on his authoritarian regime, was moving more and more of his operations to more closely aligned with Russia, with China, with Iran. And they had a particularly symbiotic relationship with Cuba, where Venezuela would send Cuba about 30,000 barrels of oil a day. Cuba would use half that oil for their own needs and then sell half of it on the world market and profit that, because Cuba didn't have that many things to profit off of.” (07:38–07:43)

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