Aye, but all i can say is, you're just wrong.
Actually the situation is different than what you think, (well not really, than what they MAKE YOU believe).
Sure Chavez had connections with Iran that i just don't approve, yet i think highly of him. Now, there will be lots of people hating on Chavez, because that's politics. Benefit their own pockets? backup that claim please.
Free themselves? from who?, they already freed themselves from the USA, that's enough freedom.
You may not have interest in controlling Venezuela, but ask your Government...
I don't see how Cuba destroyed its own economy, oh wait yes, the Socialist Revolution, damn they should have known that doing Socialist Revolutions is forbidden in Latin America! Damn! yeah, also the Blockade is Cuba's fault!.