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A truck filled with humanitarian aid was burned Saturday on a bridge on the border between Colombia and Venezuelawhen the Venezuelan army blocked the pbadage of a caravan of four vans and threw tear gas at protesters. Two other trucks were also destroyed.
The interim president, Juan Guaidó, denounced Saturday the situation in his social networks, but he badured that the volunteers were working on the recovery of food and medicines from the expedition.
"The usurper regime uses the most cruel acts and tries to burn the truck with the humanitarian aid found in Ureña"Guaidó wrote on Twitter. "Our brave volunteers are creating a chain to protect food and medicine," he added.
For its part, the national deputy Gaby Arellano confirmed the fire of one of the trucks to Venezuela by the Nicolás Maduro regime.
Arellano, a member of the National Assembly with a majority of opposition, was in first line of the border post of the city of Ureña and denounced a strong crackdown, before the trucks are attacked with help.
"People save the loading of the first truck (gandola) and take care of the humanitarian aid that (President Nicolás) Maduro, the dictator, ordered to burn"the opposition MP told reporters.
According to the EFE agency, a group of protesters, most of them hooded, destroyed at least two buses on Saturday and one was set on fire, in the midst of the troubles caused by the closure of the bridges communicated by the two countries, ordered by the government of Nicolás Maduro.
Protesters used rocks and sticks to break the windows of these red vehicles., which is a sign of propaganda of the ruling Chavism in Venezuela.
The transport units were inside a school in which several of the hooded people came in, after running from there to a hundred Chavistas who spent the night on the site.
Clashes between citizens and members of the Bolivarian national armed forces that started around 10 am, GMTin Ureña, they were kept for at least eight hours and left about twenty wounded, three of them for pellets.
The forces of the order released dozens of tear gas bombs and fired pellets at citizens, killing one person and injuring others.
Almost all shops in the city are closed, as well as the road that connects San Antonio del Táchira, another border municipality.
People remain on the streets waiting for humanitarian aid that Venezuelan opponents are trying to enter through binational bridgesas the Francisco de Paula Santander, in Ureña, an activity headed by the head of Parliament, Juan Guaidó, who announced a month ago badume the duties of president in charge.
However, the blockade of land communications, ordered by the Maduro government, is maintained at the borders, not only with Colombia, but also at the borders with Brazil and the island of Curaçao.
Guaidó badured that aid from Colombia was already on Venezuelan territory but he was arrested by the Maduro government.
The governor of Chavez reiterated his refusal to admit aid stored at the borders with Colombia and Brazil and badured that these foods are "carcinogenic" or "rotten", with no evidence.
He also mentioned the closure of communications with the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, all the political territories of the Netherlands, and claimed that he had been forced to do so because he "was preparing a provocation" that seeks to overthrow him.
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