Looks like Russia wants to control their oil - from Reuters:
Russian air force planes land in Venezuela carrying troops: reports
Two Russian air force planes landed at Venezuela’s main airport on Saturday carrying a Russian defense official and nearly 100 troops, according to media reports, amid strengthening ties between Caracas and Moscow.
And a bit more:
That comes three months after the two nations held military exercises on Venezuelan soil that President Nicolas Maduro called a sign of strengthening relations, but which Washington criticized as Russian encroachment in the region.
Reporter Javier Mayorca wrote on Twitter on Saturday that the first plane carried Vasily Tonkoshkurov, chief of staff of the ground forces, adding the second was a cargo plane carrying 35 tonnes of material.
This will be interesting to watch - Russia has a motive for this and I bet it is control of the oil fields. They are cash poor as a nation and can use this to generate a nice stream of hard cash.
It will be interesting to watch as Venezuela deteriorates from a sh*thole socialist nation to a sh*thole communist one.
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