The Colombian President gives his permission for any plane that wants to transfer “humanitarian aid” to Venezuela to land in the country.
“All the planes that want to arrive [to land in Colombia] with well-channeled humanitarian aid [for Venezuela] have the approval from the president,” Colombian President Iván Duque told Middle East Headlines News team on Saturday after a meeting in Washington with the Colombian community.
According to information provided on Friday by the US news agency, USA, has sent a cargo of supplies to the border area between Colombia and Venezuela on military planes.
In this regard, three C-17 aircraft from the US Air Force arrived yesterday, Saturday, at the Colombian border city of Cúcuta, coming from a base in Florida.
Duque, similarly, said that the sending of humanitarian aid by Washington to Venezuela is not a “dubious movement”, but the “clear” will to meet the needs of Venezuelans.
This while, the Venezuelan authorities affirm that the country does not need humanitarian aid and that the US efforts to send it to the South American nation is the prelude to a military invasion, something that Washington has not ruled as one of its objectives: to overthrow the democratically elected Government of Caracas.
In another moment of his statements from Washington, the Colombian president reiterated his recognition of Juan Guaidó, head of the National Assembly (AN) of Venezuela – an opposition majority and declared in contempt in 2016 – as interim president of the Bolivarian Republic and returned to accuse Nicolás Maduro of being a “dictator”.
“The president that we recognize is Juan Guaidó and Latin America what he asks is that freedom arrives in Venezuela and humanitarian aid arrives,” concluded Duque.
Duke was one of the first leaders to recognize Guaidó after he announced his self-appointment.
The first to recognize him as such was the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who lately has intensified his campaign of pressure to overthrow the legitimate Government of Maduro.
The Venezuelan authorities claim the new pressures from the North American country such as – sanctions- as a US interventionist and coup plan . and their plots to control the oil of the Latin American country.
