Maduro and Iran: Hezbollah, oil, and illicit networks propping the Venezuelan regime

In the latest show of regime-to-regime support, Maduro and Iran have engaged in an oil-for-gold scheme as Venezuela grapples with nationwide gasoline shortages. A key element to Iran-Maduro cooperation is the clandestine support networks of Iran-backed Hezbollah.

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[lecorsaire]

I really don’t understand what “threat” is posed to the US simply because Venezuela has good relations with Russia, Iran and China.

Venezuela has never attacked nor threatened to attack the US in any sort of fashion. Just as any other sovereign, independent country they should be able to form alliances with any country they wish.

I also believe that Washington’s insistence on overthrowing any government in the Western Hemisphere which rejects the Washington consensus and/or refuses to do what the US wants is morally wrong.

It should be up to the Venezuelan people actually living in Venezuela to make their own future and no one else. Not the exiles in Miami, not the US and not even Venezuela’s immediate neighbors.

Our foreign policy is leading us straight into a second Cold War if it hasn’t already began.

[bartversteege]

US in cuba used orginized crime all the time to kill castro

[kramconley]

and i read the Atlantic Council was supposedly non-partisan, lol
venezuela must not be one of those many nation donors ...

[MauriceSalvo]

Viva Venezuela! Viva Russia! Viva Iran!