Brazil condemned the repression in Venezuela as "a brutal attack on rights" and said: "No nation can be silent"

The Brazilian government has expressed its willingness "more vehement condemnation" of "acts of violence" perpetrated "by the illegitimate regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro" Venezuela's borders with Brazil and Colombia, which left several dead and dozens wounded.

"The use of force against the Venezuelan people, who wish to receive international humanitarian aid, definitively characterizes the criminal character of the Maduro regime", said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil in a statement.

This is the first official reaction of Jair Bolsonaro's government to the serious incidents on Saturday at the borders of Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia, as part of the coordinated operation of several countries to introduce food and medicine into the country. Caribbean countries.

For Brazil, these violent incidents are a "brutal attack against human rights"that" no principle of international law justifies at a distance "and before which" no nation can be silent ".

Nicolás Maduro has prevented the entry into the country of the requested humanitarian aid Juan Guaidó, recognized by about fifty countries, including Brazil and the United States.

On the lines of demarcation with Brazil and Colombia, the Venezuelan public security forces Use of force to prevent Venezuelan groups from setting up a humanitarian cordon to facilitate the entry of the aids loaded by trucks.

At the border with Colombia, it is estimated that at least 285 people were injured, while the Venezuelan opposition speaks of 14 dead and more than 20 wounded ball in the city of Santa Elena de Uairén, in the state of Bolívar, bordering Brazil.

The Brazilian Foreign Ministry called on the international community, "especially those countries that have not yet recognized the" Guaidó ", to join Venezuela's liberation effort", recognizing the "government" legitimate "of the latter and" demanding that the violence of the regime's forces against its own population ".

(With EFE information)