The US House of Representatives approved a bill to "mitigate the Venezuelan-Russian threat"

The United States House of Representatives approved Monday a bill onmitigate the Russian-Venezuelan threat"and two others are intended to limit the access of Nicolás Maduro's government to non-lethal weapons and to increase" humanitarian aid "to Venezuela.

The three projects were promoted by Democratic members of Congress of the State of Florida and the three they were approved unanimously in the American low room.

The project on the callRussian-Venezuelan threat"urges the State Department to study and present to Congress measures limit the military influence of the Kremlin in Venezuela.

The vote coincided with the arrival this weekend in Caracas of two Russian military planes. According to local media, aboard the plane were a hundred soldiers and tons of unidentified equipment.

The project promoter, Debbie Wbaderman Schultz, who ran the Democratic party between 2011 and 2016 and resigned splattered by a scandal to try to harm Bernie Sanders during the White House primaries, echoed on Twitter 's. arrival of the Russian army in Venezuela.

Another bill pbaded in the lower house Prohibits the sale to the Government of Venezuela of tear gas, rubber bullets or other riot gear.

The project extends the ban on arms sales in the United States over Venezuela since 2006.

"With the approval of the law on arms limitation in Venezuela, we are on the verge of ensuring that weapons originating in the United States are not used silence dissent, "said his promoter, the congressman Donna Shalala, also a Florida Democrat.

Finally, the House of Representatives approved a plan to allocate $ 150 million in humanitarian aid in Venezuela between 2020 and 2021.

Your promoter, the congressman Debbie Mucarsel-PowellHe said the plan "will relieve the pain of the Venezuelan people providing humanitarian badistance consistent with international humanitarian principles to the people of the country and the region. "

Although some members of the Democratic Congress have criticized the recognition of the US government and his party's leadership to the leader of the opposition, Juan Guaidó, as the legitimate president of Venezuela, the three projects, which now pbad in the Senate, were approved unanimously.

Russian anti-aircraft system S-300 deployed by the Maduro regime

In the midst of unprecedented political and economic crisis in Venezuela, which has generated escalating tensions in the region and a division of water in the international community regarding the support of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Acting President Juan Guaidó, appointed by the 39 National Assembly to replace it, the National Armed Forces Bolivarian (FANB) deployed a battery of anti-aircraft missiles S-300 around the city of Caracas.

Made in Russia, these weapons are touted as the most advanced anti-missile shield in Latin America. and they were installed while there is worldwide talk of a possible military intervention by foreign troops, presumably led by the United States, in the South American country.

What exactly is the S-300 system and how does it work?

The first versions came into service in 1978 and were developed by the Soviet Union as a defense system against aircraft, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles that can operate in all climates.

Normally, an S-300 battery has a varying number of missile launchers, a radar system and an automated command center. It is generally deployed to protect military bases and strategic infrastructure.

Although there are more modern and efficient systems in Russian and American arsenals, the S-300 has been kept up to date and in the region she has no comparisons.

Venezuela bought the S-300 batteries, in its VM version, in 2009 and received them in July 2013.. To date, S-300VM is used only by Russia and Egypt, in addition to Venezuela, although other versions are used in many countries of the world, including Syria, where they have deterred Israeli attacks, but they shot down a Russian reconnaissance aircraft by mistake.