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Russian private military contractors are in Venezuela guarding Maduro

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As the chaos in Venezuela continues, with two men claiming to be the rightful president, Russian private military contractors (PMCs) are allegedly already on the ground working for socialist Nicolas Maduro. Their mission is speculated to be executive protection for Maduro, according to a report from Reuters. Numerous governments, including the United States and Canada, have officially recognized Juan Guaido as the country’s new interim-president, however, Moscow seems to be backing the current socialist regime.

“The fact that U.S. policy towards Venezuela and other countries in the region is destructive is, in my opinion, self-evident. Open calls for a coup d’etat are known to everybody,” said Sergi Lavrov, Russia’s current Foreign Minister while speaking to reporters, according to Reuters.

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  • Joseph LaFave

    Hopefully if the country can hold free elections they can push the more hardcore socialists out

  • Mason

    Getting jiggy! But seriously, of course China and Russia take the opposite tack, China understandably so because they have those predatory loans to protect, sea going ports, and energy resources to assume ownership of when Venezuela defaults. Wondering if Trump will use this to draw attention away from recent shut downs, showdowns and wall rhetoric?

  • HoldingII

    Venezuela is a soup sandwich, and will be for the foreseeable future. The problem is, that every potential Maduro replacement is still a socialist. They are just going to replace Maduro’s failed experiment with another fatally flaw socialist experiment. They are in desperate need of someone more like Bolsonaro, to purge the Narco state government, and arm the people.