Shocks to the limit | The trucks that left …

The Venezuelan border with Brazil was also yesterday a territory of conflict. The limit is closed from Thursday after the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, arranged it, but that did not stop yesterday, two trucks of humanitarian aid from Brazil arrived yesterday . At the same time, the border was the scene of clashes between protesters and members of the Bolivarian National Guard. The secretary of the state government of Roraima reported that there were at least five wounded. On the other hand, a spokesman for the Venezuelan NGO Penal Forum said that during the clashes, two people had died and that the Venezuelan opposition had denounced the death of four people.

The two humanitarian aid vehicles managed to transport only a small part of the 200 tons collected in the South American giant and were yesterday at several hours 300 meters from the Pacaraima border post. . Despite the fact that self-proclaimed President Juan Guaidó announced that the trucks had managed to enter Venezuela, a few hours later, a Venezuelan exile exiled to Brazil denied this version and badured that the vehicles carrying food and medicine were withdrawing from the country. Conflicts "The idea is that this aid enters peacefully and without any violence," said former Yuretzi Idrogo MP, after groups of anti-Chavez protesters threatened to fire the gas pump cars.

The incidents began when a small group of indigenous protesters, gathered in the neutral zone of the border between the two countries to accompany the frustrated delivery of aid, began throwing stones at the Venezuelan authorities. After a few minutes, they decided to launch several Molotov bombs against the Venezuelan guard, who responded by launching tear gas bombs with the aim of forcing them to withdraw. Meanwhile, the police of the Brazilian state of Roraima mobilized to try to bring these demonstrators to the Brazilian territory. After the confrontation, the Venezuelan National Assembly of Opposition denounced the end of the conflict by four dead and more than 20 wounded by bullet. "In Santa Elena de Uairén, four people were killed and more than 20 injured," said opposition MP Juan Andrés Mejía. The ruling party, for its part, has not yet provided any information. This balance adds to two other deaths that left another confrontation on Friday afternoon.

Simultaneously, the Venezuelan president presided over an act in Caracas where he mentioned his neighbor and said that he was willing to buy food to fill the gaps in Venezuela. "We are willing to buy all the rice, all the meat that has been sent to us from Brazil (…) but by paying the chin in cash, we are not badly paid," Maduro said in a statement. act "For the defense of the revolution" in Caracas. He then spoke about the European Union and said that he also wanted help from them, but from a legal and formal point of view. "Are we blocking the drugs?" We gave them the full list of drugs, "Let's block the food, we gave them the full list of needs, we will pay everything the EU sends, we will not beg anyone. ", he said in the same speech in which he announced the end of diplomatic relations with Colombia.