• Venezuela.USA admits that it undervalued "the support of Cuba and Russia to the regime of Nicolás Maduro"

The Russian connection appears in the last assault of Chavismo against the democratic Parliament. Suspicions were unleashed from the first moment of the legislative coup, when Vladimir Putin automatically recognized the fraudulent board of directors imposed by force by Chavismo, despite being a crude vaudeville orchestrated from the Miraflores Palace.

The Russians were the first to do so, so quickly that it seemed prepared in advance: "We consider the election of a new leadership of Parliament as the result of a legitimate democratic process, which propitiates the return of the Venezuelan political struggle to constitutionality," he said. the Russian Foreign Ministry in a statement, although there was no such process and, much less, it was democratic, legitimate or constitutional. Military and revolutionary authorities imposed Luis Parra, expelled from his party accused of being sold to Chavista millionaires, without quorum and without the presence of who was to preside over a plenary that never legally began.

Why so much pageantry and haste despite such circumstances? The Legislative Finance Commission, which had been investigating Moscow's interests in Venezuela for months, knows the answer: Russia has imposed on Caracas that Parliament (albeit illegally and fraudulently) approves oilfield concessions in a country ruined in return of payments of debt and cash, which is so much needed to grease the social control machine of the revolution. In this way, Moscow would also have some legal support in the face of future international demands, since the Constitution requires that any such agreement reached by the Executive be endorsed by Parliament.

" The whole maneuver of Parra (the false president) and Maduro with the parapet of the National Assembly (AN) is to find fresh money . What lies behind is an exchange of bonds for oil fields," said the deputy and president of the Commission, Ángel Alvarado, after obtaining reserved information from people close to the firm Dentons, which advises the state oil company PDVSA. Russia would need the approval of the Legislative for its projects in Venezuelan oil fields, according to this version.

" We believe that there is a debt swap that will be made outside the jurisdiction of Maduro ... There are more than 2 billion dollars that have gone to Hong Kong for this bond swap," the lawmaker added, adding that The delivery of oil fields to Russia seeks to lower the debt with Rosneft.

Already the legitimate president of Parliament, Juan Guaidó, had said he suspected that there was "something together" between Russia and the spurious directive headed by Parra, because Moscow claimed that his election was democratic.

" The Russians are concerned about the legitimacy of the contracts in a transition . It is clear that they want Maduro to have control of the National Assembly before getting more involved, even though Rosfnet has almost no debt. Much of the debt is with the State for the sale of Russian weapons, "Francisco Monaldi, an energy expert based in Texas, confirmed to EL MUNDO.

Currently, the oil fields under Russian control are located in the Orinoco Belt, at least three, and two gas fields in the Mariscal Sucre area, in addition to a small one in the West, according to Monaldi. "But the only one that produces PetroMonagas, the rest is towards the future. There is also a rare case in PetroZamora, where we are not clear without being Russians or Bolichicos (millionaires enriched by their business with Chavismo)," concludes the expert.

Russian support is key to Maduro's survival despite the gigantic social and economic collapse suffered by the richest country on the continent. This was recognized on Monday by the US special envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, who said that the great strategic mistake of Washington was to underestimate the support of Cuba and Russia to the Bolivarian regime. According to calculations by the administration of Donald Trump, Russian companies today handle around 70% of Venezuelan oil. Russian state oil giant Rosneft "is at the center of the oil economy" of the Creole country, Abrams said.

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