Before a multitude of followers, the Venezuelan opposition Juan Guaidó that on February 23 entered the humanitarian aid in the United States, the rejection of President Nicolás Maduro.
Guaidó, recognized by some 50 countries as interim president, was set on February 23 when he completed a month of that same jury that Congress declared Maduro “usurper” to consider that he was re-elected fraudulently.
From the platform, the 35-year-old opposition leader to some 250,000 registered volunteers to help in the entry of aid organized this weekend in assemblies, councils and itinerant humanitarian camps.
“Humanitarian aid will enter Venezuela, yes or yes, because the usurper is going to have to leave, yes or yes, from Venezuela. It is not the first time that Venezuela is a library of a tyrant, hopefully the last time, “he added.
Food and medicines sent to the United States have been stored for five days in a collection center in Cúcuta on the Colombian side of the border with Venezuela, near the Tienditas binational bridge, which has been blocked by the military with two of the cargo and Tanker loading On Tuesday, a second trailer center was set up in the Brazilian state of Roraima, also on the border with Venezuela.
“We will have to go in caravans” to look for her at the border, said the head of the Congress of the opposition majority.
The socialist president led, on the other hand, a demonstration of supporters who expressed an “imperialist intervention” in the center of the capital. “We want peace for Venezuela, we all want peace for Venezuela, the war drums go away, the threats of military invasion receded,” he said.
Maduro denies there is a “humanitarian emergency.” “There is no famine in Venezuela,” it was released on Tuesday.
The economic shortage, the shortage of medicines and food for most hyperinflation. Some 2.3 million Venezuelans (7% of the population) fled the country because of the crisis since 2015, according to the UN.
“It’s time for courage!”
Seeking to break the Armed Forces, support of the government, Guaidó offered amnesty to the soldiers who do not know Maduro and warned them that stopping the passage of food and medicine is a “crime against humanity”.
“A direct order to the Armed Forces: allow humanitarian aid to enter once and for all,” said Guaidó, amid the ovation of his followers who shouted: “Yes, you can.”
But the military leadership echoes the qualification of “political show” that Maduro gave to humanitarian aid. This week, the military exercises before an eventual armed action not ruled out by President Donald Trump.
Maduro ruled out that there is a clash between the troops and the volunteers. “There will be no repression of those characteristics,” he told the BBC.
Raising a banner that reads “It’s time for courage,” Emilia Troya, a 24-year-old administration student, tells AFP that the “only route” is that of Guaidó because Venezuela lives in “dictatorship” and “there is misery and hunger.” .
On Thursday there will be a conference on humanitarian aid at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, where Guaidó will speak through a video.
OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro harangued a group of young Venezuelans at an event held on Tuesday at the headquarters of the regional organization.
“No military can stop young Venezuelans, no military can stop the aid that the people need, youth (…) is going to get Venezuela and its people to access the necessary resources. Keep going, to break the chains, “Almagro said in a tweet.
While Maduro has the support of Russia, Turkey, Iran, China, Bolivia and Nicaragua, Guaidó has the decisive momentum of the United States and the support of Latin America and the European Union (EU).
The United States proposed a draft resolution before the Security Council of the United Nations for Venezuela to facilitate humanitarian aid, which is opposed by Russia for considering it “an excuse for direct military intervention.”
Washington, with which Caracas broke relations to support Guaidó, seeks to suffocate the government and from April 28 will embargo the vital export of Venezuelan crude to the US market.
Maduro told the BBC that his country has 80 tons of gold deposited in England and he hoped it would not be confiscated. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he wants to develop trade in the precious metal with Venezuela, despite warnings from the United States.
“Venezuela is in the eye of the geopolitical hurricane of the world,” says Maduro, accusing Trump of wanting to control the largest oil reserve in the world.
In New York, the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, offered Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza to help in a negotiation.
But Guaidó says he will not dialogue even through the Vatican, because he assures that Maduro manipulated the negotiations in the past to perpetuate himself in power.
The opposition marches, on the Day of Youth, also remembered some 40 dead who left unrest and protests against Maduro in January, many of them young.
With information from El Comercio.
