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On Tuesday, Pompeo accused Russia of intervening to persuade Maduro to abandon a plan to leave the country following a call by opposition leader Juan Guaido for Venezuela’s military to help him remove Maduro. In 2017, Reuters reported that the Russian government and Russia’s largest state-owned oil company, Rosneft, advanced Venezuela at least $17bn in loans and credit lines between 2016 and 2017, becoming Venezuela’s largest sponsor, after China. The Kremlin claims, however, that they were sent to do maintenance work on military equipment Russia supplied to Venezuela several years ago. Rosneft already has minority stakes in five joint projects with PDVSA, which produced 59 billion barrels of oil in 2017, more than eight percent of Venezuela’s annual output. All that said, trade with Venezuela accounts for only about 0.01 percent of Russia's foreign trade turnover. It’s not known whether the Russian bombers were carrying any kind of armament on their visit to Venezuela. Moya-Ocampos also says Russia’s friendship with Venezuela is doing nothing to improve the desperate situation of Venezuelan citizens. With its self-confidence, Washington only 'set up' those in Latin America and Western Europe who rashly hurried to recognize an impostor whom the people did not elect as the head of Venezuela. Venezuela voted against the resolution condemning Russia's annexation the Ukrainian peninsula Crimea in 2014, and it was one of the few countries to … All Rights Reserved.

A Russian Antonov AN-12 plane takes off from Simon Bolivar International Airport in La Guaira, Vargas state, Venezuela, on March 28. Under the administration of then-President George HW Bush beginning in 2001, Chavez became highly critical of Washington’s “imperialistic” foreign policy in the Middle East including the invasion of Iraq. Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox.

It’s not going to lead to an improvement of relations.”. The White House told The Hill that the bombers — along with a Russian An-124 cargo plane and an Il-62 passenger jet — would leave on Friday. External observers typically view Cuba as Russia’s key Latin American ally, but Rouvinski said Russia has never managed to restore the same level of confidence in Havana as in Soviet times. Upon learning of this plan, the White House ordered a naval blockade and President John Kennedy revealed the news in a nationally televised address. Sputnik Mundo es una agencia de noticias rusa que te trae las historias más importantes del acontecer mundial en español.