Hours before the US staged a raid to capture Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president was hosting a senior envoy from China, one of his closest international backers and most important oil buyer.
Maduro presented Qiu Xiaoqi, whom he called a special envoy of President Xi Jinping, with a statue of a horse to mark the new year and they spent hours discussing hundreds of agreements including on energy and infrastructure amid mounting US pressure.
“It’s the year of the horse and we gallop onward in perfect union,” Maduro declared.
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