Both versions of a humanitarian mission

Radio France International Life on the planet

February 26, 2019

On 23 February 2019, several trucks loaded with humanitarian aid managed to cross the Francisco Paula Santander bridge, which connects the Colombian city of Cúcuta with the Ureña, Venezuela. On the other hand, Venezuelans in uniform attacked the volunteers with pellets and tear gas.

Maritza Ramirez, a Venezuelan woman who has been living in Pennsylvania (United States) for over twenty years, was aboard one of these vehicles. Maritza went to Cúcuta to join the volunteer corps responsible for transporting humanitarian aid to Venezuela.

In this report, Maritza reports that the soldiers stole the first truck from the convoy and that "unwittingly" the uniforms burned two more trucks.

Madeleine García, who works for Telesur, a chain linked to Nicolás Maduro's regime, said the trucks had been set on fire by Venezuelan terrorists and that the cargo was not at all humanitarian.

Drawing on photographs, Garcia later stated that the trucks had been set on fire by people in the trucks carrying barrels of fuel.

This testimony, critical and accusing with the volunteers, was denied in all the social networks by the journalist Karla Salcedo Flores, of the Colombian channel Caracol, author of the photos. Salcedo Flores pointed out that there was water in the drums.

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