Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Photo courtesy of Russian Foreign Ministry
Vladimir Frolov, Moscow Times: Putin Is Ready to Give Up Venezuela for the Right Price
Sergei Lavrov and Mike Pompeo will soon meet in Helsinki to discuss Venezuela's future.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are heading towards a contentious meeting in Finland (their first since the Helsinki summit last year) with the crisis in Venezuela crowding out almost all other items on the agenda.
Last week, Russia and Cuba may have thwarted a U.S. backed plot to engineer a peaceful transfer of power from Nicolas Maduro to a transitional government led by interim president Juan Guaido and Venezuela’s top officials, including Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino and Supreme Court Chief Justice Maikel Moreno.
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WNU Editor: I do not think Russia has the leverage in Venezuela that the White House thinks it has. It is true that Russia has a few hundred military contractors in Venezuela, and it is giving support to Cuba to maintain a few thousand advisers/contractors/etc. to prop up the Maduro regime. But does the Kremlin have the influence to tell Nicolas Maduro to quit the Presidency and move to Cuba for the rest of his life? The answer is no.
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Well, if the story is believed, they certainly got Maduro to change his mind and stay in the country instead of leaving.
That, seems pretty influential to me.
He wasn't leaving in the first place. That is fabricated from fat pompeo because their coup failed.
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