Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is reaching out to his Russian, Chinese and Iranian counterparts requesting defensive radars, aircraft repairs and potentially missiles in a bid to boost its military capabilities amid a buildup of American forces in the Caribbean.

Internal US government documents showed that a draft request letter to be handed to Russian President Vladimir Putin when a Maduro official visits Moscow later this month. The Washington Post , which first accessed the documents, said that a letter was also written, addressed to Xi Jinping, with Maduro requesting “expanded military cooperation" between their two countries to counter “the escalation between the US and Venezuela".

Maduro requested Xi to expedite Chinese companies’ production of radar detection systems.

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