The United States will again send humanitarian aid to Venezuela, but this time in a military plane

While President Nicolás Maduro is in a hurry to resign, the US government is preparing to send a new cargo of humanitarian aid on the Venezuelan border with Colombia, although for the first time he will do so by military aircraft, according to a leaked e-mail from the State Department to the Congress of that country.

The announcement of additional badistance was made the same day as the administration of President Donald Trump announced new sanctions the president of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and other key officials of the intelligence sector of Maduro.

US authorities they plan to send as early as Saturday 250 tons of food, hygiene items and nutritional supplements in the Colombian city of Cucuta, where other supplies awaiting admission to Venezuela are already stored.

The email sent to Congress on Friday about the new help was sent to The badociated press by a US congressional adviser who was not allowed to publicly discuss the issue.

United States have decided to send help at the request of the opposition Juan Guaidó, that the Trump government and several other countries have recognized as the true leader of Venezuela. It was after Maduro took his second term, in an act qualified illegitimate by some.

Guaidó, who is also the president of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, promised to provide help to Venezuelans despite Maduro's rejection, only in an interview Thursday with AP He called American badistance "crumbs".

Although the US armed forces have long supported the missions of humanitarian badistance led by the civil authorities, this is the first time that they have been channeling aid directly to Venezuela. Last year, the US government sent a help worth more than 100 million dollars in Cucuta help Colombia cope with the presence of more than one million Venezuelans arrived in its territory after fleeing food shortages and hyperinflation.

New sanctions

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday that General General Manuel Quevedo, PDVSA's general chairman, was an instrument to consolidate what he called the illegitimate regime of Maduro.

In the interview with APMaduro said Quevedo was in India this week to discuss the new companies of PDVSA, After the company was the target of sanctions with which it seeks to reduce its profits, estimated at about 11 000 million dollars.

The new US Treasury sanctions were also sent to four senior officials of the Bolivian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) and to the director of the Venezuelan National Police Special Action Forces (FAES).

Mnuchin said in a statement that he was corrupt officials who help Maduro to attack democracy in Venezuela by means that include the use of torture and brutal force.

The the sanctions prevent these officials access their property in the United States and prevent US citizens from doing business with them.