In Venezuela, there are many cryptotraders who are among the most active in the world, alongside the US and Russia, when it comes to peer-to-peer (P2P) trading of dollar-based cryptocurrencies, this claim is made by
Chainalysis New York blockchain analysts. In Cuba, the situation with bitcoin seems to be progressing, on 8/26/2021 the Ministry of Economy published resolution 215/2021 which now recognizes cryptocurrencies and bitcoin
authorizing its use mainly for reasons of socioeconomic interest. With this resolution, Cubans will be able to trade bitcoin because, due to economic embargoes imposed by the United States since 1960, Cuba has always had problems with the use of the US dollar and bitcoin can help move the local economy, one of the problems encountered with this regulation is due to political and economic instability
of the country, which makes it unlikely that its regulation will follow a decentralized model as in El Salvador, but in any case it is a good start.
It makes sense that people in Venezuela moved to make money from crypto, the minimum salary there is close to $3 or so, which means if they could simply just work in axie infinity for example they could become wealthy let alone just rich. That's just one example, making few bucks per day on crypto is simple, trading could give you that much but has risks yet it could yield you with more, applying on IDO's or bounties or signature campaigns and many more things could be done.
Basically when your nation is poor enough, crypto suddenly becomes the key to leave that poverty behind and live a good life. Of course when nation as a whole is poor, even if you are rich, you will not be living the rich person's life in other nations because even if you have the money for it, sometimes you can't just find food. So, it is not 100% sure fire way to get out of poverty exactly but certainly a much easier path.