Getting the incentives right

I can understand Chavez getting his medical treatment in Cuba. After all, the Castro brothers have the most to lose if Chavez is not longer in power. Cuba gets $3 billion plus in annual subsidies from Venezuela.

One Venezuelan blogger considers his country to be a Cuban colony:

"Cuba is very worried about its colonial outpost in South America. Things are not going well there. The Viceroy is ailing just as the province is having serious difficulties in providing the monthly stipends due to the imperial metropolis, Havana. Thus measures had to be taken before the natives become more restless than what they already are."

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