Raul Castro: US must return Guantánamo for normal relations

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The only governments in modern hisory in Latin America that could accurately be described as "left-wing dictatorships" outside of Cuba are the military regime of Juan Velasco Alvarado in Peru and the Omar Torrijos regime in Panama. Most right-wingers would likely to argue for the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, but every observer agrees that for Daniel Ortega's first Presidency he was elected in a free and fair election and left office peacefully after losing the election.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Well it's pretty clear Cuba needs Venezuela more than the other way around.