There have also been initiatives that tried to involve China and Russia in a solution for Venezuela. We regret that those initiatives didn't work in the end. We can study the reasons for a long time, but our main concern about what you're asking is that these attempts in the past were made when the situation was better in Venezuela, two years ago, or really one year ago.
We have not had, and I think the Chinese were not able to achieve from the Venezuelan government, a positive answer to that. Denial is the trademark of the Venezuelan regime. At any level, it's very difficult to influence them in a positive way, even by the Chinese.
Everything that has been tried so far has not worked. We all know the permanent denial of the humanitarian crisis, the permanent denial of the political situation, the permanent denial of human rights violations, the permanent denial of the situation of the economy that the regime in Venezuela has repeated time after time. So far, I don't see this Chinese influence working on them in a positive way.
The situation in the country is even worse than what has been described here, because the lack of institutionality makes it practically impossible to fix any of the issues you've mentioned. It will be impossible to fix the financial problems of the country, the economic problems of the country, the problems with the collapse of the oil production system. It will be very difficult to resolve even the territorial control of the country. We have a strong presence of the ELN and FARC in at least two-thirds of the territory. We see what happens when Venezuela's national guard wants to intervene in those areas: They are just killed by the ELN. They have absolute impunity about that. They have absolute impunity on illegal mining and exploitation and organized crime activity, the drug trafficking they have implemented. We have a rogue state that is paralyzed in everything except illegal activities.
Those illegal activities make things very difficult to resolve. I tried to explain it here. A political solution, a political dialogue, a political negotiation is very difficult to implement with a criminal state. It is very difficult to implement negotiations with drug traffickers, which is what we have now in Venezuela. We have the family of the president in jail in New York because of drug trafficking. We have hundreds of millions of the vice-president's dollars frozen in the United States because of drug trafficking. We have the minister of the interior sanctioned because of drug trafficking. We have the whole repressive apparatus sanctioned because of drug trafficking.
I don't think even the Chinese can conduct a negotiation with drug traffickers. There are no open negotiations with drug traffickers that we know of. That is the logic that the regime has. That is the door that is closed for them. That makes it impossible for them to go and negotiate with drug traffickers.