It doesn't matter at all if it's Venezuela or Cuba or any other place, if one place will catch it to the level of network effect it goes on from there. On contrary we should focus more on places that need Hive the most. It has nothing to do with "niceness and good heart" On the part of effectivness I agree, we already see that certain marketing activities doesn't benefit us proportionally to money spent. Local community leaders, bottom-up movements, education and community building are marketing tactics interwoven in Hive DNA. These stories prove usage of Hive in certain use cases and create effective narratives to go with story telling based marketing.
Hive is not another business oriented chain with bought activity in social media (how is mr Instagram soccer player doing on Hive?). There are real, living human beings building this space. I mean, what you write about big part of Hive community is highly disrespectful if not insulting, proves you lack crucial understanding of this tech and its potential and at the end by creating concentration of power is one of the biggest threats to the chain right now IMHO.