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To: Alighieri who wrote (773981)	3/9/2014 6:59:46 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571068

Putin's big card... Russian sub bases in Cuba and Venezuela in exchange for nukes. What's not to like? Just thumbs in both of our eyes, plus "Your Monroe Doctrine is too 19th Century for the 21st". = Hugo Chavez calls off Venezuela's nuclear energy plans (yeah, he's dead; some other guy to deal with). Venezuela signed a deal with a Russian company last year to develop a nuclear power plant over the next decade. But Mr Chavez said events in Japan showed the dangers of developing nuclear power were too great. bbc.co.uk = Concrete Crypt for Communist Dreams: Cuba's Unfinished Nuclear Power Plant In 1976, Communist companions Cuba and the Soviet Union signed a deal to build a nuclear power plant in Juraqua. Construction on the first of two nuclear reactors began in 1983 with a target operational date of 1993. But a few years before the reactor's scheduled completion, the USSR collapsed. The flow of crucial Soviet funds ceased, 300 Russian technicians went home, and Cuba was forced to suspend construction on its badly needed power plant. slate.com