The United States asked the Venezuelan army to allow the entrance of humanitarian aid

United States asked this Wednesday that the Venezuelan army let in international humanitarian aidthat dictator Nicolás Maduro sees as a pretext to invade the country.

"The Venezuelan people desperately need humanitarian aid, the United States and other countries are trying to help, but the Venezuelan army under Maduro's ordersblocks help with trucks and tankers. The Maduro regime must let help come to the starving peoples, "US State Secretary Mike Pompeo said on Twitter.

Republican senator for the state of Florida, Marco Rubio, also raised the subject on his Twitter account, especially the information that the Venezuelan regime had blocked the delivery of drugs to HIV-positive people. "It's a death sentence for those who depend on antivirals to survive"Rubio said.

John Bolton, National Security Advisor at the White House, also echoed Pompeo's tweet. Through his account on the social network, he said: "Maduro and his friends live in Europe and enrich their Cuban customers while plundering the wealth of Venezuela." They physically block the Venezuelan people, including military rank, receiving humanitarian aid. "

While the international community is preparing to send relief in the form of food and medicine, the Venezuelan army on Tuesday blocked a bridge on the border with Colombia.

The tanker of a fuel transportation office and a gigantic container were crossed on the road to close the path on the Tienditas bridge, which communicates the localities of Cúcuta (Colombia) and Ureña (Venezuela).

Franklyn Duarte, deputy of the Venezuelan state of Táchira, badured that "the troops of the armed forces had blocked the pbadage" Tuesday afternoon.

The humanitarian aid was managed by Juan Guaidó, recognized by about forty countries. as acting president of the oil country after baduming the executive functions before Maduro's "usurpation" of power.

The dictator Chavez insists that his country does not suffer from a humanitarian crisis and repeatedly refused to send help from the international community.

"Venezuela can not be made a false promise of supposed humanitarian aid, Venezuela must be called to work, to produce, to the growth of our economy, we are not beggars of anybody", has-it- he declared following a military event state of Aragua (north) last Tuesday.

Despite the position of the Chavez regime, the international community continues to plan the distribution of humanitarian aid.

On Tuesday, the United States, through Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House Security Advisor John Bolton, began a series of talks with Brazil and Colombia on the logistics needed to deliver humanitarian aid to Venezuela.

Bolton met Ernesto Araújo, Chancellor of Brazil, while Pompeo did the same with Carlos Holmes Trujillo, Colombian Chancellor.

Trujillo acknowledged that the purpose of the meeting was "to chart a common course of action for the future with regard to Venezuela".

Last week, the US government confirmed that it was studying the possibility of opening a humanitarian corridor, which Chavismo interprets as a threat, as it may require the participation of troops, regardless of whether they American or any other country in the region.