The regime of Nicolás Maduro has blocked the website of volunteers to receive and distribute humanitarian aid to Venezuela

The communication provider of the state CANTV blocked Monday the volunteer website for the entry of humanitarian aid managed by Juan Guaidó.

Opposition leaders had said last week that CANTV redirected the website www.voluntariosxvenezuela.com, in which volunteers are registered to receive badistance, on the portal www.voluntariosvenezuela.com (without the "x" between the words), a website that seemed identical to the design but a different database, misleading users. Subsequently, the design has been modified.

"This fake page was already there and now they just preferred to block the Web"he said to the AFP Hasler Iglesias, activist of Voluntad Popular, political party of Guaidó and leader of the opposition under house arrest Leopoldo López.

The volunteer site does not charge when using the service offered by CANTV, although it works with other providers.

Since the launch of the initiative on February 12, More than 600,000 people have registered According to Guaidó, collaborate with the entry to Venezuela of food and medicine shipments sent by the United States to Cucuta, a border town of neighboring Colombia.

The regime of Nicolás Maduro denies the possibility of accepting aid, denouncing it as a pretext for a US military intervention.

For its part, Guaidó is asking the armed forces to give way to humanitarian aid despite the refusal of Maduro and ensures that shipments cross the border "yes or yes" on Saturday, February 23.

L & # 39; opposition recommended to those who wish to register as volunteers to connect to the website www.voluntariosxvenezuela.com via private telecommunication services or to use a VPN, technology that avoids blockages.

Maduro's critical media often denounce the blockades of CANTV, Venezuela's main telephone and Internet provider.

(With information from AFP)