Posted on 01/23/2019 3:56:44 PM PST by Texas Fossil
Erdoğan phones Maduro after U.S. backs opposition leader
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro in a show of support after U.S. President Donald Trump formally recognised Maduro’s rival as the interim president of Venezuela, Spanish daily El Pais reported on Wednesday.
Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself interim president on Wednesday, a surprise move the 35-year-old said was the only way to save the country from “dictatorship” under Maduro.
The United States, Canada, Brazil, Colombia and other U.S. regional allies quickly recognised Guaidó, prompting a defiant response from Maduro, who accused Washington of trying to rule Venezuela.
Amid a day of heated developments, Erdoğan was among the first foreign leaders to make a show of support for Maduro.
The Venezuelan president said during a speech that he had received a call from Erdoğan, who he said had encouraged him to move forward and extended Turkey’s support to his government.
Ankara has been an important backer for Maduro, supplying much needed basic goods including food amid shortages.
The dealings between the countries include trade in Venezuelan gold worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The transfer of such a high volume of gold trade from Switzerland to Turkey has raised suspicions Ankara is facilitating a mechanism to move Venezuelan cash past U.S. sanctions.
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One Venezuelan state has a muslim governor- pro-Iran
Maduro going to Turkey? He won’t like it there. Probably won’t like Russia either.
Guess it beats staying in Venezuela. Ceausescu Moment pending.
I assumed the new guy wasn’t conservative by any definition because he wasn’t in jail or exile.
Venezuela shares one problem with Cuba and many American cities: The cream of the crop has left, and many of those people remaining want a nanny state. In all three cases, many of the whites have left, and the non-whites remaining tend to be “socialist”. Over twenty years ago people from Venezuela’s upper and middle classes started moving their families here to the NYC area; they knew what was coming.
It was an historical reference, too exhaustive to elaborate here. And yes it is a part of Europe. There is a small land area west of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, contiguous with Greece and Bulgaria, which is defined as being in Europe. Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is in Europe.
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