In addition to the absolute support of the autocrats Maduro, Diaz-Canel and Ortega to the Russian invasion, the leftist governments of Lula da Silva and Petro have also consented to the invasion of this ultra-right regime.
By Hector A. Ríos Maury (latinoamerica21)
HAVANA TIMES – Vladimir Putin won the rigged elections held in Russia last March with, allegedly, 87% of the votes. Before the elections, according to recent reports by Amnesty International (from 2022 to 2024), the World Committee to Defend Journalists and the UN Special Rapporteur for Russia, Mariana Katzarova, the Russian government had passed new restrictive laws, closed dozens of radio and television stations and imprisoned, disbarred or induced thousands of journalists, LGBT community leaders, political opponents and other opponents to leave Russia, many of whom are missing or dead.
As has happened for years during their governments, two of their main adversaries died in suspicious circumstances. Last August 23, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the military Wagner, after challenging Putin, his plane crashed; and on February 16, the most notorious dissident leader, Aleksei Navalny (imprisoned since 2021), died by “natural causes”, according to the Kremlin, in an inhospitable Siberian prison.
Putin and Trump, far-right and allies
Putin’s victory is great news for his best ally in the West, Donald Trump, who is charged with 91 crimes and who calls the Russian president a “genius” and uses a group of Republicans in Congress to hinder aid to Ukraine and thus favor Russia. In return, Russian government media such as Sputnik, Tass, and Russia Today constantly praise him.
We are facing a collaboration scheme that has become so obvious that, in an attempt to deceive the illusions, a few weeks ago Putin publicly claimed that he would prefer Biden to be reelected.
It is not the first time that Putin and Trump (who had business dealings in Russia), coincide around common political interests. The one known in the United States as the “Mueller report” (2019) concluded that the Russian government favored Trump during the 2016 elections, and further estab
