Caretaker President Juan Guaidó is in Bogota for a Lima Group meeting. What chavismo did to humanitarian aid trucks is only a sample of what they’re willing to do, according to Delcy. Mike Pompeo says all options are still on the table and the various nations as well as the EU only support peaceful initiatives.
I've been in many demonstrations through these years of violence in Venezuela. But what I saw on February 23rd, at the border with Colombia, was different: an entire society fighting with the desperation of those who have nothing else to lose.
While the push for getting the aid into the country faced military and paramilitary violence in three of our borders, at former chavista strongholds people demand a change, now. This is the second entry of Camille’s motorcycle diaries, a series of dispatches on mototaxi from Caracas.
The battle for humanitarian aid at the Venezuela-Colombia border affected people on both sides, physically and spiritually. Anger, frustration, chaos and a glimmer of hope, this is what we saw from the field.
What does China mean with its “non-interventionism” attitude, when chavismo needs allies more than ever? Simple: “We’re here for business, not politics. You’re on your own.”
14 people were murdered 287 were wounded on Saturday 23rd. Maduro just wants to see the country burn and dance the human rights violations away. Venezuelan journalists and foreign correspondents were attacked and robbed like never before. Guaidó announced he'll attend the Lima Group meeting in Bogota on Monday 25th.
Instead of a siege from abroad, the Venezuelan people are already besieged by its own government: the Maduro regime has submitted the population to control by hunger, like some totalitarian systems of the past.
We Venezuelans need to have the right expectations about what will happen in the following weeks. One particular issue, amnesty, is a whole source of dissent, disappointment and conflict.
Nicolás Maduro tried to stop Venezuelans from watching and hearing the Venezuela Aid Live concert by taking down two cable channels and launching several Internet blockings.
As someone born and raised close to Colombia in many senses, the Venezuela Live Aid was the quintessential gathering of that nation of superposed identities and affections that lives around this border. The symbolism goes way beyond what Branson said.
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