Cuban official says Venezuelan oil no giveaway
He said Cuba has more than 40,000 people working in Venezuela, including about 30,000 medical personnel.
"These are high-quality services, specialists, professionals, paid well around the world and for which a price is set based on cooperation and solidarity for our mutual benefit," he said.
Details of Cuba's economic relations with Venezuela are cloaked in secrecy, in particular what the South American country pays for technical assistance, though local economists believe it is around $5 billion per year.
Siera said Communist Cuba's relations with Venezuela go beyond energy and economics.
They have similar ideologies and a shared vision of a united and independent Latin America where "mutual benefit and preference for the least developed are more important than purely commercial interests."
(Editing by Jeff Franks and Michael Connor in Miami; Editing by David Gregorio)
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