Maybe they're pissed that his corrupt Guardsmen are smuggling coke to France?
Or the opposition leadership, who are pissed that he may have sold the country--and her gold reserves-- to China?
Also on Maduro’s plate is a growing drug-trafficking scandal. On Wednesday authorities said they had made
fresh arrests related to an Air France flight earlier this month from Caracas to Paris that was found carrying 1.3 tons of cocaine – a record-breaking seizure for French authorities. Among the 17 people being investigated are eight members of Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard – a potential embarrassment to an administration that has taken up anti-corruption as its flagship cause.
But Maduro has said his trip to China was an economic success. The governments signed 12 agreements, including the establishment of a
Venezuelan-Chinese enterprise to develop the Junin oil block in the Orinoco Oil Belt, an agreement to develop a mining map of the country, and a feasibility study and engineering agreement to develop the Las Cristinas gold mine.
Maduro also bagged a $5 billion loan. However, the government has not said whether they are fresh funds, a line of credit, or the renewal of previously extended loans. The administration has also been mum on what kind of guarantees it has provided for the money, but Maduro has promised to give a full accounting of the trip.
In the past, the country has backed Chinese loans with future oil sales. But on Tuesday, Henrique Capriles, the Governor of Miranda state and the opposition standard-bearer, speculated that the country was turning over its gold reserves for the money.
“What condition will they leave this country in if they sell off our gold reserves,” he said. “Do you think those $5 billion are going to solve our economic problems? Of course not.”
Read more here:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/09/25/3649959_p2/venezuelan-president-heads-home.html#storylink=cpy
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