United States manifesto preoccupation with Russian influence over Venezuela and Cuba

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is attending a hearing on the Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington, DC, USA, March 10, 2021.  Ting Shen / Pool via REUTERS
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is attending a hearing on the Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington, DC, USA, March 10, 2021. Ting Shen / Pool via REUTERS

The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, is this Wednesday that Joe Biden’s administration is preoccupied with Russia’s influential role in Venezuela and the resumption of its activities in Cuba.

“Comparto esa preocupación”, dijo Blinken in a hearing of the Exterior Support Committee of the Chamber of Representatives to be consulted about the activity of Moscow in the hemisphere. ‘We are in Venezuela. We have seen, created, a resurgence of Russian presence and activity in Cuba in the last years, and we are very aware of this in all of our ambitions ”, aggregate.

Blinken said this was a false statement by Congressman Albio Sires, who chairs the Occidental Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House of Representatives, asking about it. “Russia appears to be one of the most compromised with Venezuela. And there is a tendency to destabilize the region (…) My concern is that we are in Venezuela to destabilize Colombia to get involved in other elections in South America and hopes that the administration will concentrate on Russia’s efforts to destabilize our homes in the western hemisphere”, Dijo the Cuban-American congressman representing the state of New Jersey.

Archive photo.  Russian President Vladimir Putin dismisses Nicolás Maduro during a Kremlin meeting on September 25, 2019. Sergei Chirikov / Pool via REUTERS
Archive photo. Russian President Vladimir Putin dismisses Nicolás Maduro during a Kremlin meeting on September 25, 2019. Sergei Chirikov / Pool via REUTERS

United States monitors the Russian presence in Venezuela since time immemorial. In August of this year, Admiral Craig Faller, commander of the Command Sur de las Fuerzas Armadas -cuya orbita de influenza incluye al caribeño- dijo que “la influenza rusa is la principal fuerza manteniendo a Nicolás Maduro en el poder”.

“I am alarmed that Russia is threatening Venezuela in terms of staff displeasure and dissemination of information,” he said during a Latin American think tank conference at the Atlantic Council.

Russia is one of the leading political and commercial allies of Hugo Chávez’s regime, and Maduro’s lieutenant colonel. Moscow is, moreover, the second creditor of Venezuela, after China, with 7,500 million dollars, according to estimates by the local Ecoanalytica consultant.

It is estimated that in the last 18 years, both companies will have around 300 cooperation agreements. The contracts on the technical-military camp around the 11,000 million dollars, según la prensa rusa. Based on these agreements, Venezuela has at least 20 operational units of the Russian Sukhoi Su-30 bombing station, characteristic features are considered similar to those of the F-15E Strike Eagle stadium, as well as anti-aircraft and anti-aircraft weapons. The Caribbean nation, in the wake of the dramatic humanitarian crisis, also created a Kalashnikov rifle factory, an army that currently employs Venezuelan Army Forces, accused of crimes against humanitarianism.

The military alliance also includes the mobilization of Russian troops in the Venezuelan language, which provoked the condescension and indignation of the regional lands and organisms that led to the dictatorship of Maduro. It will be held during the year 2019, as soon as this year the international community will declare the legitimacy of Maduro as president of Venezuela through the fraudulent elections of 2018 and, in his place, he will express his support and support. Juan Guaidó.

In the middle of this year, Russia’s governor has revealed the terms of a restructuring agreement in favor of Venezuela. The same establishments say that the annual caracas of Caracas in Moscow will be incremented in five weeks from 2023. The South American country pays in Moscow 133 million dollars by the year 2019 -and until 2022-. This figure will increase to 684 million dollars between 2023 and 2026. The agreement precedes the rebound of 3,120 million dollars in capital and interest payments for 217 million dollars.

The Kremlin acted as the last resort resort in Caracas, with the Russian governing body and the oil giant Rosneft proportioning at least $ 17,000 million in loans and credit lines since 2006.

The alliance was also demonstrated in the form of sanitary aid. The first lot of vacancies against COVID-19 in the Caribbean province of Russia. On February 13, Moscow sent 100,000 doses of Sputnik-V.

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