Here's your sign, Pooty!
The only reason they are protective is that certain groups are persuading Guiado to default on Venezuela’s debt it owes to Russian companies and to declare debt ‘criminal debt slavery’.
That is something Ukraine did on near interest-free Russian credit before getting ‘non-slavish’ IMF credit which now costs them half of their national budget in interests and growing.
For some reason these US-based groups aren’t that biased towards Chinese credit though.