Venezuela: The Cuban Army in Venezuela

The Foresight Method

Via a David Goldman post I followed a link to Foresightcuba's July 2017 article on The Cuban Army in Venezuela.

The "Foresight" section serves as the site's "About" page and begins by discussing the Foresight Method, which is analysis that helps define goals (needs) and the risks and opportunities presented by measuring and comparing demographics, economics, resources and well being.

Forsightcuba believes that:

"Cuba is in a deep crisis, caused by erroneous policies, totally disconnected from rational socio-economic foundations and with an enormous cost for the people of Cuba" and goes to state that their project "tries to raise awareness about the challenges, and contribute information for better decision making".

In short, they are not supporters of the current Cuban government and this outlook influences any articles they have on Venezuela its Boliviarian regime. That being said, I don't detect, so far, an overly propagandist or emotional style and believe a lot of the information gathered is informative.

A map and more details on the next page.

Venezuela: Guerra De Nervios 1 March Link Aggregation

Isolated Venezuela

The Saker gives 1 point to Maduro and the "Anglo-Zionist Empire" zero points in the recent humanitarian aid offensive. 

The Saker has an interesting back story and I enjoy his writing but his recent posts on Venezuela show more emotion and are a little less analytical than usual. Despite awarding the recent round to Maduro the Saker expects more trouble ahead.


The prolific David Goldman calls the Guerra de Nervios a "Bloody War of Attrition". Goldman states that the United States does not have any good choice but favors a U.S. policy of constant subversion and mayhem. Just like the Saker, a reader may not agree with his positions but his articles are always worth a read. In his article Goldman devotes a few paragraphs on explaining that Latin American revolutions are usually "prolonged, bloody wars of attrition" (e.g. Columbia).  Also, there is a link to a ForesightCuba.com article on the Cuban Army in Venezuela.  Translating that post and seeing if I can find additional information online will be the subject of my next Venezuela piece.

The Saker links to Nat South's post analyzing sea and air traffic in the Caribbean during the recent humanitarian aid push. Via Nat South I discovered the Twitter account of Steffan Watkins, worth following, not just for the situation in Venezuela but for anyone interested in analysis based upon open source reporting and sighting of military assets, worldwide.