Venezuela: Maduro has yielded and will allow the humanitarian aid of the Red Cross to enter the country

Chavismo asked that the measure not be "politicized". The agreement with the international organization aims to serve the deteriorated health system of the oil country.

Finally, humanitarian aid will enter Venezuela, but not as anticipated by the opposition. The government of Nicolás Maduro has reached an agreement with the Red Cross (ICRC) to help the Venezuelan population affected by the current serious economic crisis in the oil country. For its part, the international organization explained that the agreement related to "the provision of urgent health care".

After a meeting with the president of the International Committee of the ICRC, Peter Maurer, Maduro, said that they agreed to "work to bring to Venezuela all the support, all the support. humanitarian aid that could be provided ".

Without referring directly to the opposition, Maduro insisted that aid should enter the country "without politicization of any kind".

Last February, the Venezuelan opposition tried to enter the country through the Colombian and Brazilian borders with several tons of help provided by the United States, Chile, Colombia and other countries of the region. However, these shipments were rejected by the Chavista administration with the argument that it was a political game and not humanitarian in nature.

The President indicated that his Chancellor, Jorge Arreaza, was working on the negotiation of a "formal" document with the Red Cross, in which the parameters of the income of the aid are established, so that the Committee international agency be the "rector" of all the "mechanisms" wanting to help. "Respect the sovereignty of our country, without politicization of any kind, without false representation (…) and by effectively respecting the security protocols," he said.

Maduro said that "all that is legal" is welcome, although he stressed that "Venezuela has long received from China, Russia, Turkey, India" and that the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has provided "humanitarian badistance".

Source: TN

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