What if I told you Venezuela didn’t “give away” oil to Cuba… it paid $63.8 billion for a repression system built in Havana?That’s the conclusion of a 2026 report from the Miranda Center for Democracy: Oil for Repression, the audit of Cuba’s intelligence occupation in Venezuela.Since 2000, Caracas sent subsidized crude, investments, and debt relief. In today’s dollars: $63.8 billion. In nominal terms, about $44.5 billion. Most of it was oil: at the peak years, more than 100,000 barrels a day.

GAESA isn’t a company. It’s the Cuban military owning the economy.Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat breaks down the Miranda Center investigation: 40–50% of Cuba’s economy under one unaudited military conglomerate. Tourism. Remittances. Fuel. Banks. Loyalty purchased with cash. Repression financed by the same machine.Who really runs Cuba?

China’s Technology Behind Maduro Regime’s Repression
and Social Control.  Special Guest: Iria Puyosa.