Venezuela’s Maduro meets Putin in Turkey

October 11, 2016 FaustaW World Comments Off on Venezuela’s Maduro meets Putin in Turkey

Following the news that Russia wants military bases in Cuba, here’s another interesting note: Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro palsying with Putin at the World Energy Congress in Instanbul

Putin announced that

non-Opec member Russia was ready to work with the cartel in imposing measures to limit oil production, in comments that propelled the price of crude to its highest levels in a year.
. . .
Nicolas Maduro, President of Opec member Venezuela which has seen its economy battered by the low oil prices, said a “new mechanism” was needed to keep up prices.

For his part, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 

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