Guaid and supporters prepare to defy Maduro's blockade of aid
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela — Politicians from the Venezuelan opposition and their supporters prepared to challenge President Nicolás Maduro’s blockade of U.S. and other foreign aid on Saturday, as fears mounted that the attempt could be stymied by further violence in this collapsing socialist state.
After an attack by the Venezuelan military near the Brazilian border that left two civilians dead and 11 wounded, groups of volunteers and opposition leaders boarded early-morning buses, cars and motorbikes en route to the eastern Colombian border. In addition to vows of bringing in aid by sea and land — and via human chain if necessary — the opposition also planned large-scale rallies in cities nationwide to demand the admittance of international relief.
“I’m very concerned with the information we’ve received about paramilitary groups and other irregular groups already at the border with the intention to spread violence,” said opposition politician Nora Bracho. “We have no doubt that there will be violence, absolutely no doubt.”
The Venezuelan government late Friday announced the “temporary closing” of three key border crossings with Colombia. And just before the 8 a.m. start time to the effort to break the blockade, a violent confrontation broke out on the Santander bridge in the western border town in Ureña — one the crossings to Colombia ordered closed by the Maduro government on Friday.
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