to Cubanize
“Dos pasos claves en la estrategia "unionista" se han dado: apoyar económicamente a Cuba en todo lo que necesitara, […] e importar a Venezuela modelos de organización de la sociedad cubana, en los más disímiles campos, a fin de cubanizar, esto es, controlar férreamente al pueblo venezuelano” — Two key steps in the "unionist" strategy have been taken: financially supporting Cuba in whatever it needed, […] and importing Cuban models of social organization to Venezuela in various fields, in order to Cubanize, that is, tightly control the Venezuelan people.
Etymology tree Spanish cubano Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōlbor. Old Spanish -izar Spanish -izar Spanish cubanizar From cubano + -izar.