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The reappearance of the controversial former Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba has complicated one of her new political friends, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whom she links with the gold mines of Nicolás Maduro. This has been reported in an interview with the Colombian digital media The 2 shores, where he confusedly mixes Chavista governors and international allies with sanctions and corruption to finally draw a stark x-ray of the revolution he defends.

"But how are you doing, I can't understand it. I told Rodriguez Zapatero, I don't understand this. He said: all of us were given a gold mine . We exploited and what does not come to our side, it comes to us here, "said Cordoba, admired by the recent inauguration of a baseball stadium in La Guaira, the closest coast to Caracas, in the midst of an economic and social collapse in the oil country.

The leader asked those present about how such an economic miracle was possible, despite the supposed blockade alleged by Chavism, in a story that leaves more questions than answers. Gold mining and smuggling have become two fundamental tools of the revolution to avoid international sanctions.

Gold triangulations often pass through Turkey and from there they are distributed to other places. "Everyone wants gold from here," Cordoba paraphrased the words of one of his interlocutors, who also acknowledged that they had just bought the necessary tools from China. Generals and leaders of Chavismo distribute the mines of the Gran Sabana under the protection of the Colombian guerrillas and local mafias. Even Parliament has signaled Maduro's son to be in charge of a coltan mine in the Amazon.

The former senator assumes revolutionary propaganda as her own, without any breakers, to ensure that in the oil country "there are problems, but they are not as serious as they want to present. You go there and feel the strong blockade, as in Cuba, but still the same there is a government that pensions four million people (they receive three euros a month). "

Córdoba's argument reaches its highest point by ensuring that "the problem is that they never stopped balls (paid attention) to outside communication and this generated more chaos that exiled people." The revolutionary collapse, which adds up to six years in recession with almost 70% of GDP destroyed , has caused the massive escape of more than five million Venezuelans. Both Zapatero and Córdoba agree in their defense against the revolution, they even attribute the huge diaspora to the sanctions of the United States.

Among the great forgetfulness of Córdoba in this interview with The 2 shores is the name of who is the main financier of the La Guaira stadium, inaugurated with years of delay. This is an old acquaintance of his, Colombian businessman Alex Saab , whom the rebel prosecutor of Venezuela accuses of being Maduro's main frontman. Saab, persecuted in his country and in the US, has been enriched in recent years thanks to the CLAP food boxes, the Bolivarian version of Cuban ration books transformed into the main tool of social control of Chavismo.

Piedad Córdoba also met with Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez two weeks ago. "He tells me: go to such a place. I went but I don't know sincerely what that was there. And then a man tells me, get off this car (vehicle). I never imagined that who was driving (driving) was Delcy. That's a very solid team, "congratulated the political activist.

"The opposition is negotiating with Nicolás, they are reaching agreements with him . There will be elections. No one believes Guaidó there," Cordoba shot in another of his revolutionary mantras. The former senator refers in this way to the false Dialogue Roundtable, formed by the Chavismo and small groups of the opposition (including Timoteo Zambrano , the man of Zapatero in Caracas), who intend to cohabit with the revolutionary power.

On his last trip to Caracas, Zapatero presided over the meeting between both parties, which also had the previous approval of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov . And all this despite the fact that the democratic Parliament decreed in 2018 that the former leader of the PSOE was "inadmissible" for a negotiation or a political dialogue.

The former liberal leader does not hesitate to point out that "there is a person helping that is Zapatero and many of us pushing" , facing his main goal in Venezuela: the survival of the 'son of Chávez' in power.

The enthusiasm for the revolutionary cause of this leftist leader, in her day very close to Hugo Chávez , also led her to affirm that in an election, "with or without Nicolás, Chavismo wins", despite what all the polls say. In the last survey of Datanlisis, 52% of Venezuelans rated Maduro's management as very bad, 22.5% bad and 10% regulate towards bad.

"Nicolás has had to dance with the ugliest, he has been very difficult. He is a very spiritual guy . Fidel and Chávez met and chose Maduro for loyalty," said Córdoba.

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