Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel delivers a speech Saturday in Havana as he flutters a Venezuelan national flag in support of Maduro. “For Venezuela, of course for Cuba, we are willing to give even our own life, but at a heavy cost,” Diaz-Canel proclaimed. We don’t.”Protesters hold pictures of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (right) and former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (left) as they take part in a demonstration against the US operation in Venezuela, in front of the US Consulate in Amsterdam on Sunday. Chavez, before his death from cancer in 2013 following months of treatment in Cuban hospitals, declared Cuba and Venezuela were not two nations but la gran patria – the one homeland. Over the years as I traveled regularly between Cuba and Venezuela, it was hard to tell where one nation began and another ended.
