This same Tuesday, only Venezuela, Cuba, China and Eritrea supported Russia in the UN Human Rights Council
back of Nicholas Maduro to his main ally in the middle of the bombings against ukraine: the Bolivarian revolution and Vladimir Putin they will continue to strengthen the “Russian-Venezuelan strategic association and the execution of joint projects”, with contacts at various levels.
“Maduro expressed his strong support for the decisive actions ofRussia“, the Kremlin highlighted today in a statement after the telephone conversation between the village president of Venezuela and his associate Vladimir Putin. During the call they agreed on the “destabilizing attitude of USA and NATO”, condemned previously from Caracas.
Nowadays, russian special forces, mercenaries and drone pilots participate in the armed conflict on the border with Colombia, in which the Venezuelan army supports the ELN and FARC Second Marquetalia guerrillas in their confrontation with the dissidents of the Tenth Front. The guerrillas are fighting to keep this transcendental drug trafficking corridor.
In addition, Moscow became Maduro’s main ally to evade US and European sanctions, even benefiting from the smuggling of gold from the Venezuelan Mining Arc.
“Vladimir Putin shared his assessments of the events surrounding Ukrainenoting that the objectives of the special military operation are the protection of civilians in Donbs, the recognition by kyiv of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, as well as the demilitarization and denazification of the Ukrainian state , and the guarantee of its neutral and nuclear-weapon-free status,” the Kremlin reported.
In the hours before, only Venezuela, Cuba, China and Eritrea they supported Russia in the UN Human Rights Council, in an attempt not to discuss the brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Even before the Russian attack began, Maduro had made his position very clear: “Venezuela announces its full support for President Vladimir Putin in defending peace in that region! All support for Russia!“, shouted Maduro on television.
“Maduro knows perfectly well that the greatest support for his regime in recent years has been from Eurasia, even more than from Cuba. Closing ranks with Putin only shows that he has no intention, if he ever had one, to advance in reforms that allow some type of democratization, which shows that this economic opening is not a sign of political openings. A perestroika without glasnost,” political scientist Walter Molina Galdi told EL MUNDO.
“What this support for the invading Russian regime does, in the end, is complicate even more the possibility of returning to the negotiation of Mexico and even open the curtain for new sanctions from the US and Europe,” added Molina.
The negotiations in Mexico are suspended by order of Maduro after the extradition of his alleged figurehead alex saab To united states. Later it has been known that the false diplomat also served as an informer for the DEA (US Drug Enforcement Agency).
Norway, a country that has served as a facilitator of dialogue between the government and the opposition, today supports the Ukrainian cause. Russia was one of the facilitating countries at the Mexico table.
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