Maduro insists: "Humanitarian aid hides an invasion led by the United States"

Venezuela's President, Nicolás Maduro, said Sunday that the humanitarian convoy that had attempted to enter the country on Saturday, organized by the Colombian and Brazilian opposition, had concealed an invasion led by the United States.

On his Twitter account, Maduro also accused the organizers of Friday's mbadive concert at the Colombian border, in support of the convoy entrance, to serve US plans.

"They tried to cover a concert and a so-called" humanitarian aid "at the border, a plan unveiled and announced by (American) President Donald Trump.I called for international solidarity with the homeland of Simón Bolívar," Maduro said.

The protector of the State of Táchira appointed by the government, Freddy Bernal, pointed out that on Saturday, an irregular situation was created on the bridge Las Tienditas, where they had tried to move him to the bridge Boca from Grita, an area left in La Fría, Táchira, where "hundreds of criminals besieged the Bolivarian National Guard and where a captain resisted like a hero with only 20 men out of more than 3,000".

Regarding the desertions of the army, dozens according to the opposition, Bernal spoke of "seven traitors". "Who are they?" From the Bolivarian National Guard, a lieutenant who worked in the administration, another in the kitchen, then two national guards who were occupying the parking lot and another lieutenant who was not in command "he explained.