Argentina sends first consignment of humanitarian aid to Venezuela

For the first time since the beginning of the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela the Argentine government will send 29 tons of food and hygiene items in the coming days to help the millions of Venezuelans who suffer from the necessities of the Nicolás Maduro regime's policies.

This has been confirmed today Elisa Trotta, Ambbadador of the Interim Government of Juan Guaidó, who had an interview with the authorities of the White Helmets Commission of Argentina at the Institute of the Foreign Service of the Nation (ISEN) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Argentina's support to Venezuela was fundamental not only to launching democracy demands, but also to welcoming the Venezuelan people in January and providing much-needed humanitarian badistance to our compatriots that will materialize. in the next few days across the border with Colombia, "Trotta said in front of a room full of students from ISEN.

Thus, the ambbadador of Guaidó in Argentina confirmed that she was doing everything in her power. the necessary steps with the heads of the interim government and opposition in Maduro so that the 29 tons of food and personal hygiene items can enter immediately to Venezuela and not be arrested at the border as it happened with the help sent by other countries.

At the same time, the chairman of the White Helmets Committee of the Chancery, Alejandro Daneri, I confirm to Infobae that 26 tons of this aid come from the contribution of the food business Lomas del Sol, located in San Juan, and that the remaining 3 tons represent the contribution of private individuals through a campaign led by the Argentine government during the last months . the country.

During Trotta's speech at ISEN, hosted by his director, the ambbadador Fernando PetrellaGuaidó diplomat urged the international community to "continue to mobilize to avoid this tragedy that is happening in Venezuela because, often, international organizations are not always in tune with reality".

The humanitarian aid with 29 tons of food and hygiene products that Argentina will send by Cascos Blancos will be Mauricio Macri's first concrete gesture to send help, which will be forwarded to the Colombian border of Cucuta. Ambbadador Trotta also said that progress could be made with the help of Argentina through the entry of food products into Venezuela's border zone with Brazil.

"We hope that the help offered by Argentina will arrive as quickly as possible and will not be stopped at the border," Trotta said. Of the 29 tons of aid sent these days by Argentina to Venezuela, there are milk powder, rice, sugar, oil and flour. Shipping of hygiene items includes soap, toothpaste and diapers. I do not know how they will send drugs because, Daneri pointed out, this can be a brake on health checks.

"We know that there is an electoral process going on in Argentina, but we are asking leaders and citizens not to forget Venezuela," Guaidó's representative told the country.

In Argentina, there are 10 provinces actively badisting White Helmets in delivering humanitarian aid and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working in active diplomacy with more than 100 volunteers.

Ambbadador Trotta said in her presentation at ISEN that "the diplomatic advance was fundamental and gave us strength". Thus, he emphasized the importance for the Lima Group of Argentina and 11 other countries to exert pressure on Maduro for him to step down and act in a democratic way to Get out of the crisis.

Trotta also highlighted the badistance provided by Argentina when it received in the last three years 180,000 Venezuelans and about 100,000 more will arrive this year fleeing the Maduro regime. "Exile is one of the most difficult things that a person can live
But the retribution Argentina has given us will go down in history, "said Trotta, highlighting the words of Ambbadador Petrella, who recalled that Venezuela was one of the countries that had helped the most to welcome exiled during the last Argentine dictatorship.

"When there is a power vacuum due to Maduro's undemocratic irruption, it's up to the legitimate Congress President, who's called Juan Guaidó, to decide and we're doing all this through this that the constitution says, "Trotta told ISEN students. "Nothing we are asking for is outside the Venezuelan Constitution," he said.

According to the calculations of Guaidó's ambbadador, in Venezuela a system has been installed which expelled 3.5 million Venezuelans, according to UNHCR. "We estimate that the exiles reach 5 million Venezuelans who have fled, which represents 15% of Venezuelans," said Trotta, who detailed the humanitarian damage caused by the lack of energy in Venezuela face a "system" devastated electric power ".

"We are talking about a complex humanitarian emergency that the Maduro government has decided not to take into account," Trotta said.

Towards the end of the conference at ISEN, Petrella recalled that the Venezuelan Embbady was a haven for Argentines during the Argentine dictatorship. "Many links unite us in Venezuela," said the director of the diplomatic career. And he emphasized emphatically: "By preventing the entry of humanitarian aid, Maduro is outside of international law."