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Judi Lynn

(160,450 posts)
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 02:34 AM Feb 2019

The Latest: US envoy Elliott Abrams is heading to Colombia

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019 10:48 PM,

UPDATED 2 HOURS 14 MINUTES AGO

CARACAS, VENEZUELA
The Latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local):

7:00 p.m.

A U.S. envoy is heading to Colombia as part of a mission to send food and other emergency supplies to neighboring Venezuela amid a deepening political and economic crisis there.

The State Department says Special Representative Elliott Abrams will lead a U.S. government delegation transporting humanitarian supplies from Florida to Colombia in military aircraft.

https://www.islandpacket.com/news/business/article226570119.html

LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142272060

This is a great moment in history: a war criminal is escorting a "humanitarian supply of food" to Venezuela through Colombia.

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