Russia would have deployed its anti-missile system in Venezuela, to reveal it to the Spanish press was Ledezma, former mayor of Caracas. Eleven anti-aircraft defense batteries are present in Venezuela. The metropolitan mayor of Caracas in exile in Spain since 2019, Antonio Ledezma, he also addressed the United Nations.
According to information Ledezma had access to, the S-400 and S-500 systems, considered the best anti-aircraft defense systems in the world, have been deployed due to the amount of tracking and exploration radars.
Three would be located in the oil state of Zulia, in particular in the areas of La Guajira, Perijá and Sur del Lago. Others, in Táchira, Trujillo and Barinas. In La Guaira (state of Vargas), where the Maiquetía international airport serving Caracas is located, there would be two more. In Falcón, Apure and Carabobo would have been positioned the three most recent. According to Ledezma, the cargo planes of the Russian Air Force landed in Venezuela in recent years (the latest in March 2019) were carrying the material used for the installation of these anti-aircraft systems.
According to the former mayor of Caracas it is "a challenge for the United States" and "a way of saying" we are here "". History is not new to this strategy, the Soviets in Cuba unleashed the famous "missile crisis" of 1962. The mayor adds that today the fact is more serious, because behind it there would also be the direction of Iran and China. Ledezma adds that Venezuela is inundating the US with toxic drugs to make the American population sick, a kind of biological warfare. It is no coincidence, Ledezma specifies the presence in Venezuela of FARC and ELN guerrillas, as well as Hezbollah, the Lebanese terrorist organization linked to Tehran. "Venezuela is an environment in which terrorism and drug trafficking move freely ", denounces the former mayor in exile
The arms race in Venezuela began with the late Hugo Chávez, who bought Russian Sukhoi rifles, tanks and planes. Antonio Ledezma is preparing, together with lawyers and other consultants, a document that he intends to discuss for the first time in the National Assembly of Venezuela through the so-called parliamentary section of July 16, to which his party, Alianza Bravo Pueblo is linked. The Venezuelan politician has long been a supporter of international action to end the Maduro regime. He also asked for "a peacekeeping force, to bring down irregular groups" and quell what he believes is "a threat to the stability of the hemisphere and the world". "When we are accused of not being patriots for having promoted an invasion, we say that it is the opposite: Venezuela is invaded by Cubans, Russians, Iranians, Chinese, FARC and ELN narco-guerrillas and terrorists from Hezbollah ".