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Venezuela: Red Cross brokers Maduro-Guaido deal to allow aid delivery
Source: The Guardian
Venezuela: Red Cross brokers Maduro-Guaidó deal to allow aid delivery
• First shipment for 650,000 could reach Venezuela in two weeks
• Red Cross says aid must be ‘neutral, impartial and unhindered’
Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá
Fri 29 Mar 2019 21.04 GMT
The Red Cross has brokered a deal with representatives of Venezuela’s embattled leader Nicolás Maduro and his rival Juan Guaidó to allow humanitarian aid into the country, indicating a seldom-seen middle ground between the two men that contest the presidency.
The first shipment of aid for about 650,000 vulnerable people could reach Venezuela in two weeks, Francesco Rocca, the president of the International Federation of the Red Cross told a press conference on Friday.
“This is an operation similar to what’s going in Syria, in terms of the amount of people that will be attended,” Rocca said. “This obviously will not resolve the problems in Venezuela – and nobody should assume this is a complete solution.”
The shipment will include medical equipment, surgical kits and power generators – which are desperately needed as Venezuela grapples with devastating blackouts.
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• First shipment for 650,000 could reach Venezuela in two weeks
• Red Cross says aid must be ‘neutral, impartial and unhindered’
Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá
Fri 29 Mar 2019 21.04 GMT
The Red Cross has brokered a deal with representatives of Venezuela’s embattled leader Nicolás Maduro and his rival Juan Guaidó to allow humanitarian aid into the country, indicating a seldom-seen middle ground between the two men that contest the presidency.
The first shipment of aid for about 650,000 vulnerable people could reach Venezuela in two weeks, Francesco Rocca, the president of the International Federation of the Red Cross told a press conference on Friday.
“This is an operation similar to what’s going in Syria, in terms of the amount of people that will be attended,” Rocca said. “This obviously will not resolve the problems in Venezuela – and nobody should assume this is a complete solution.”
The shipment will include medical equipment, surgical kits and power generators – which are desperately needed as Venezuela grapples with devastating blackouts.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/venezuela-maduro-guaido-aid-red-cross