Russia demands that the Trump administration clarify the fate of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, captured this Saturday by American special forces during a military offensive in Venezuela. The Kremlin, however, limits its support for its Latin American “ally” to a demonstration of solidarity. Moscow and Caracas signed a “strategic partnership treaty” last year, but Moscow will no more come to the defense of Caracas than it did with Iran last year. His understanding with Donald Trump weighs more on his plans for Eastern Europe.
“We believe that all partners who may have grievances against each other should seek solutions to problems through dialogue,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement supporting Caracas and other Latin American countries’ demand for a special meeting of the U.N. Security Council. Meanwhile, the Kremlin entourage “envy” the capture of Nicolas Maduro in just a few hours, after the failure of his assault on Volodimir Zelensky almost four years ago.
Moscow was “extremely alarmed” by the disappearance of Maduro and his wife. “We demand immediate clarification of this situation,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said after calling the attack a “deeply disturbing and reprehensible armed aggression.”
Moscow also reaffirmed its “solidarity with the Venezuelan people” and its “support for the line of the Bolivarian leaders aimed at protecting the national interests and the sovereignty of the country”.
The Kremlin’s discourse on a multipolar and anti-colonial world failed upon the arrival at the White House of a leader, Donald Trump, who, like Vladimir Putin, aspires to a distribution of control over other sovereign countries between the nuclear powers. In this case, from Eastern Europe to South America.
Putin and Maduro sealed their strategic partnership treaty in the fall. Dead paper, like the same agreement signed earlier by Russia with Iran. The support sent by Moscow to Caracas in recent months has proven symbolic and Venezuela’s defenses, like those of Iran, have failed miserably in trying to stop US bombing.
As a source close to the Russian Defense Ministry explained to this newspaper before the North American attack, the Venezuelan regime’s lack of resources made it impossible for Russia to militarily support Venezuela while it is fully engaged in its invasion of Ukraine.
In Moscow, comparisons between the American attack and the “special military operation” launched almost four years ago by Putin to take kyiv and eliminate, or kill, Volodymyr Zelensky are odious.
“We will be envious, Comrade Beria,” the director of one of the Kremlin’s main foreign propaganda outlets, Russia Today (RT), wrote on her social networks. Margarita Simonián declared in 2022 that kyiv would fall “in three days” and celebrated the invasion launched against Ukraine. Paradoxically, one of RT’s channels is aimed at Latin American audiences.
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