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Maduro starts blocking border crossings to keep out humanitarian aid
Two trucks from the Venezuelan side hinder Tienditas bridge, border with Colombia
Wednesday, 02/06/2019 08:54 AM
translated from Spanish
San Cristóbal, February 6 - The Tienditas bridge, one of the three that connects Colombia and Venezuela, in the Táchira state (west), has been blocked with two trucks since February 5, according to photographs posted on the Office's Twitter page. of Migration of the New Granada country.
"Director of Migration Colombia (Christian Krüger) arrived to Norte de Santander to review the current status of the border crossings with Venezuela," says the message that was posted on Twitter accompanied by three photographs showing the passage blocked by a truck orange cistern and a blue container.
Tienditas is one of the three bridges that connect Colombia and Venezuela, the other two are Simón Bolívar, between Cúcuta and San Antonio de Táchira; and Francisco de Paula, which connects the city of Ureña.
This bridge has not been inaugurated, as it was completed in 2016, and before its inauguration President Nicolás Maduro ordered the closing of the common border, after Venezuelan military personnel were injured by paramilitaries during an operation against contraband.
This time the tension returns to the border between Colombia and Venezuela, after the head of the National Assembly (unicameral parliament, with an opposition majority), Juan Guaidó, proclaimed himself president "in charge", and later announced that his country would receive humanitarian aid.
Guaidó said that one of the points for which aid would come from countries such as Germany, Canada and the United States would be the border of Venezuela with Colombia, in the Táchira state.
Since then, the Government of Venezuela has strengthened the security of the border and said that it will not allow access to donated food and medicines, considering that they seek to promote a destabilization of the country.
"Director of Migration Colombia (Christian Krüger) arrived to Norte de Santander to review the current status of the border crossings with Venezuela," says the message that was posted on Twitter accompanied by three photographs showing the passage blocked by a truck orange cistern and a blue container.
Tienditas is one of the three bridges that connect Colombia and Venezuela, the other two are Simón Bolívar, between Cúcuta and San Antonio de Táchira; and Francisco de Paula, which connects the city of Ureña.
This bridge has not been inaugurated, as it was completed in 2016, and before its inauguration President Nicolás Maduro ordered the closing of the common border, after Venezuelan military personnel were injured by paramilitaries during an operation against contraband.
This time the tension returns to the border between Colombia and Venezuela, after the head of the National Assembly (unicameral parliament, with an opposition majority), Juan Guaidó, proclaimed himself president "in charge", and later announced that his country would receive humanitarian aid.
Guaidó said that one of the points for which aid would come from countries such as Germany, Canada and the United States would be the border of Venezuela with Colombia, in the Táchira state.
Since then, the Government of Venezuela has strengthened the security of the border and said that it will not allow access to donated food and medicines, considering that they seek to promote a destabilization of the country.
https://www.aporrea.org/tiburon/n338091.html (via RT/Sputnik)