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If we are to look at Venezuela from Cuba, and at Venezuela together with Cuba, we should go back to December 1994, when Hugo Chávez, just out of the prison where he had been held since his attempted coup in 1992, arrived in Havana and was welcomed by Fidel Castro with full honours as a future hero.
Chávez, who had just turned 40, made an inflammatory anti-imperialist speech in which he showed his potential as an emerging mass leader, albeit still burdened by the stern verticality of the barracks.
