The first US aid delivery for the needy Venezuelan population arrived in the Colombian border town of Cucuta. Ten trucks brought about 100 tons of food, medicine and toiletries to a warehouse near the Tienditas bridge, which was blocked on the Venezuelan side, Colombian civil protection said yesterday.
Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido plans to have the help provided by the US Development Agency USAID made in the coming days to Venezuela. Further deliveries are to be made available in neighboring Brazil as well as on a Caribbean island – according to media reports, Puerto Rico – for transport to the South American crisis country.
The Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, however, refuses to continue. At an event in front of his supporters he declared in Caracas that his country had no humanitarian crisis. That’s just a pretext for a US intervention.
