And Chavez, so young ...

Moscow takes new steps towards rapprochement with Venezuela, which has been on the verge of bankruptcy

The election campaign in the United States did not bypass Venezuela: the official Karakas is outraged by the commercial of the Democratic Paria of the United States, in which Donald Trump is compared with Hugo Chavez. The advertising video was posted immediately after the third and last debate between presidential candidates - Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. In the video, Trump is compared not only with the former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but also with other negative historical characters - Hitler and Mussolini.

"Doesn't it remind anyone?" - says the announcer in a program intended for viewers speaking in Spanish. After that, the former leader of Venezuela Hugo Chavez in military uniform and red beret arises on the screen, ordering the country's independent radio stations and television channels.

The Venezuelan government did not like such a comparison of Trump and Chavez. The Foreign Minister of Venezuela Delasi Rodriguez called the advertising video "by the expression of racial arrogance." Chavez, according to her, was, unlike the American tycoon, a "democrat by nature" and "a philanthropic leader who fought with poverty."

Lenin without cap

But if for the Americans Hugo Chavez is the personification of evil, then for Russian friends Venezuela he is the embodiment of virtue. In early October, in the Venezuelan city of Sabanet, the opening ceremony of the monument to Chavez, in which Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro and the head of Rosneft, Igor Sichin participated, took place. The six -meter statue, created in the spirit of socialist realism, was scorched in bronze by the Russian sculptor Sergei Kazantsev. From afar, the figure of Chavez with an extended hand can be mistaken for a monument to the leader of the world proletariat Vladimir Lenin, only without a cap.

But to pay tribute to the memory of the former Venezuelan idol is not only entrusted to Igor Sichin. At a recent energy summit in Istanbul, President Maduro announced his intention to establish a prize named after his predecessor and reward it with the leader of Russia Vladimir Putin. “I decided to establish the Hugo Chavez Award for Peace and Sovereignty,” said Maduro. “I believe that President Vladimir Putin deserves the named after Hugo Chavez for his achievements in strengthening the world.”

From afar, the figure of Chavez with an extended hand can be mistaken for a monument to the leader of the world proletariat Vladimir Lenin, only without a cap

Feast near the porch

In 2007, Hugo Chavez forced such energy giants as Conocophillips and Exxonmobil to leave Venezuela, which later led to the degradation of the country's oil industry. Just Conocophillips sued the American state of Delaware for the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, accusing her of fraud, the purpose of which is the purpose of compensation in the Venezuela nationalization case.

At the same time, PDVSA herself threatened to declare a default on her external loans next week. By the end of the year, she must pay $ 4.2 billion debt, and only $ 12 billion remained in the Venezuelan treasury, and if the oil industry becomes bankrupt, then the whole country will be in the porch.

However, the captains of the Russian oil industry are not confused by Venezuela. In October, PDVSA and the Russian Rosneft agreed the allocation of $ 20 billion for projects of the Orenoko oil belt, which was fixed by the firm handshake of Igor Sechin and the oil industry of Venezuela Eulochio del Pino in Karakas. Moreover, this happened immediately after the opening of the monument to Chavez, reminiscent of Lenin.

In October, PDVSA and the Russian Rosneft agreed the allocation of $ 20 billion for projects of the Orinoko oil belt, which was fixed by the firm handshake of Igor Sechin and the Minister of Oil Industry of Venezuela Eulochio del Pino