Nicolás Maduro shot Colombia and said he had only "cocaine" to offer to help Venezuela

The Venezuelan ruler, Nicolás Maduro, said Friday that the United States "despised" Venezuela's opposition, after that country offered $ 20 million in humanitarian aid through self-proclaimed President Juan Guaidó, and Colombia could only provide "cocaine" if it claimed to do the same.

"Mike Pompeo left by stating that the new interim government has $ 20 million for humanitarian aid, I say how cheap the coup was, $ 20 million! Is that what they will give Guaidó?", said the president at a press conference at the Miraflores Presidential Palace.

"Mr. Mike Pompeo, did you think what I was going to say? So you despise your own opposition by offering you $ 20 million for what they did, for the coup d'etat?"he added.

The US government announced yesterday that it was going to spend $ 20 million in humanitarian aid to Venezuela, a country plunged into a serious political, economic and social crisis, whose resources will be transferred to the interim government of Guaidó, which declared two days ago that the constitutionally protected powers of the executive had been granted .

In this sense, Maduro said that the initiative, born in the middle of a meeting at the OAS to deal with the Venezuelan crisis, It looked like an "auction".

"Does the Colombian government give more (out of 20 million)?"said Maduro, they would have consulted the Colombian delegation to the OAS.

"Cocaine, it's that they can give (and) nobody has agreed to give cocaine", he added, noting that The Colombian government had "30 tons" of drugs ready to bring to Venezuela in the form of humanitarian aid.

Maduro's statements occur in the middle of strong local and international pressure against his new 6-year government, which was installed 15 days ago in the middle of allegations of "illegitimacy".

The leader of Chavez was able to comfortably impose himself in the elections of last May, to which The bulk of the opposition has not been presented as fraudulent.

For this reason, antichavism considers that President Chavez "usurps" the presidency since his second six-year term is "illegitimate" and as a result executive power falls to Parliament until the convocation of new elections, according to the interpretation they give of several articles of the Magna Carta.

Wednesday, Colombian President Ivan Duque expressed at the World Economic Forum in Davos his country's support for Guaidó's presidency: "Colombia recognizes Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela and accompanies this process of transition to democracy so that the Venezuelan people can free themselves from dictatorship".