• The details: Operation Gideon: the six keys to the suicide mission against Nicolás Maduro

Russian military personnel are reportedly participating in Operation Shark 2020 , the immense deployment of revolutionary forces hunting and capturing the Venezuelan rebel military survivors of the failed landings of recent days. This was recognized by the Twitter account of the Operational Defense Comprehensive Zone (ZODI) of La Guaira, the military region where the armed confrontation of Macuto took place.

"Eight specialists from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation appeared who will operate the unmanned aerial equipment to conduct patrol and search operations and actions in Carayaca in order to support the capture activities of the mercenaries," ZODI assured in a tweet, later deleted. Russian forces have frequently used drones in their military operations in Syria.

In Carayaca, the last three commandos of Operation Gideon were captured, which sought to capture Nicolás Maduro to transfer him to the United States. They are a policeman from Caracas, a sergeant from the Bolivarian National Guard and a sergeant from the Navy. So far, the Chavista forces have killed eight rebels and captured twenty commandos, most of them military who rose up against the revolution, as well as two US mercenaries, who have exercised in recent weeks as coaches of the different operating groups. on the Colombian border.

The government has decreed a curfew in Colonia Tovar, a mountainous area near Caracas, since the early hours of today, forcing the population to stay at home and restricting any commercial activity. Tamara Suju, a human rights defender, reported that hooded agents of the special forces (FAES) and the political police illegally break into homes, including at the headquarters of the Catholic Order of Carmelites. The FAES are the "extermination battalions" of the revolution , according to United Nations reports.

The operative

The Russian military arrived in an aircraft Thursday afternoon to assist in the operation against the insurgents. Local media also reported that this morning another Russian plane, from the Azur Air company, has landed in the South American country, where since the beginning of the "radical quarantine" ordered by Nicolás Maduro, flights have been restricted. Hours after deleting the message on social networks, the Chavista newspaper Últimas Noticias clarified that there were obstacles to operate with its drones.

It would be the first military action on the ground by Russian forces in the last four decades on the continent. Soviet advisers and coaches assisted Sandinista troops and their Cuban allies in Nicaragua during the US-funded war against the Contra during the 1980s.

"If confirmed, it would be a direct military action with the consent of the country's Government, of an extra-continental power in America, which goes far beyond the ties that the US Government has had with the armies of the region," he highlights for EL WORLD Cuban historian Armando Chaguaceda, expert in revolutions. "In Russian actions in Syria small, high-tech special forces teams operate combining official Russian state forces with paramilitaries," he adds.

"When the Russian military came to deploy the entire anti-aircraft defense system they were operating in Venezuelan territory. Now the evidence clearly exists. We are facing a very serious fact from the point of view of national sovereignty and internal politics, but unquestionably from geopolitics it is enormous impact, "stresses this newspaper Rocío San Miguel, president of Citizen Control for the Armed Forces, who also insists that the use of foreign armies in national territory must be authorized by Parliament.

The closest historical background leads to Cuba, with the Russian brigade of four battalions after the Caribbean crisis, which remained on the island until 91, Chaguaceda said. "And the participation in Nicaragua of Russian soldiers who accompanied counterinsurgency actions, such as this one," concludes the historian.

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