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http://laclase.info/content/rechazamos-la-injerencia-politica-y-militar-rusa-en-venezuela/?fbclid=IwAR3mhxAdk_sBP6KhJbJtrHa7XX5dgcVZiHVrDGrrZq-3FoczrgutAHJw7qs English translation: On Tuesday, March 19, in the city of Rome, the so-called special envoy for Venezuela of the USA, Elliot Abrams, and the Vice Chancellor of Russia, Sergei Ryabkov, met in their own words to make diplomatic consultations on the political and economic situation. Venezuelan Subsequently, on Saturday, March 23, two Air Force aircraft of the Russian Federation arrived at the presidential ramp of Simón Bolívar Airport located in the town of Maiquetía. Russian aircraft stationed in national territory are an Antonov An-124 that is used for the transport of military equipment and an Ilyushin Il-62 that transports passengers. According to the version of the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajárova, the hundred Russian military who arrived in our country are advisers whose task is to conduct a series of meetings to further develop technical-military cooperation agreements between the governments of Vladimir Putin and Nicolás Maduro. According to the Russian government, this military presence is of indefinite duration. This is unacceptable and we reject it. The participation of the Russian Vice Chancellor in a meeting with the war criminal Abrams, who represents the imperialist government of the USA, is a sample of the degree of interference of both governments in the internal politics of Venezuela. From the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSL) we assert that it is not the US and Russian governments that must decide the future of Venezuela, it is the Venezuelan working people who, with their mobilization and independent organization, have to take the country out of the terrible crisis in which was plunged by the economic plundering of transnational capital, the local bourgeoisie and the government. The anti-popular government of Nicolás Maduro allows a capitalist power like Russia, which has its own political and economic objectives, to simulate a supposed condition of representative of the Venezuelan State in those spurious negotiations that take place behind the back to the working people and that are a blatant attempt to decide on the future of the government, state enterprises and common goods of the country. In turn, this meeting between the US and Russia is an attempt to negotiate territorial zones of influence in the world. In that sense, from the PSL we repudiate their attempt to turn Venezuela into a change sheet on the diplomatic board of the great imperialist and capitalist powers. The arrival in the national territory of a hundred Russian soldiers shows an escalation in Venezuela, and it is evident that their landing in a civilian airport was for the purpose of quickly disseminating this information, as a gesture of political support. Since the government of Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan state has acquired billions of dollars in Russian military equipment: Sukhoi fighter jets, Kalashnikov rifles, an air defense system sustained in MANPADS Igla-S surface-to-air missiles, the anti-missile S- 300VM and the 4K91 S-125-2M of type Pechora 2M; tanks T-72 and T-90; helicopters Mi-17 and Mi-35, among others. In this way, an immense military expenditure has been made that even implied a huge external indebtedness of the Venezuelan State. The excuse for these purchases of weapons and for the current presence of Russian military personnel is their dissuasive nature in the face of the possibility of an armed intervention of the US in the country. The Socialist Revolutionaries of the PSL repudiate all expressions of Yankee interference, from oil sanctions to support for the formation of a puppet government headed by Guaidó and those called for a military coup. But at the same time we explain that the civic-military government of Maduro does not defend national sovereignty or independence. The defense of sovereignty and the repudiation of Yankee and Russian interference must be organized by the workers and the popular sectors, with total independence from Maduro and Guaidó. The alliance of the Russian Federation with the anti-popular government of Maduro is not gratuitous or simply an expression of political affinities with the reactionary Putin, who in his country cuts the rights of women, persecutes the homosexual population, increases the retirement age, represses and oppresses nationalities like the Chechen people, closes radio stations and independent television channels, and in Syria is ally of the dictatorship of Bashar Al-Sad, massacring hundreds of thousands of civilians in a campaign of scorched earth. In Venezuela, the State and the Russian bourgeoisie participate in the looting. In addition to the military business, they have established a joint venture between Pdvsa and Rosneft to extract oil in two blocks of the Orinoco Belt. From the PSL we reject the political interference and the military presence of Russia in Venezuela, and demand the immediate withdrawal of Russian military personnel from the national territory. In addition, we believe that it is essential to repudiate the external debt with Russia, which is the product of huge military purchases that have not benefited the working people of Venezuela, and that have only become business opportunities for Chavez military leaders. Finally, as part of our policy of a fully state oil industry and under the management of oil technicians and workers, PSL proposes the repeal of oil agreements with Rosneft and other Russian companies. Neither Trump nor Putin! The future of Venezuela must be decided by the working people of Venezuela! No Marines or Russian soldiers, no foreign military intervention in Venezuela! Enough of the delivery of the goods and resources of the country to gain geopolitical support! -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. 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