Brazil condemned "acts of violence" on border with Venezuela – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

The Brazilian government on Sunday expressed its "strongest conviction" against the "acts of violence" committed "by the illegitimate regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro" at Venezuela's borders with Brazil and Colombia, killing five and injuring dozens .

"The use of force against the Venezuelan people, who wish to receive international humanitarian aid, definitely characterizes the criminal character of the Maduro regime," the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said in an official statement released on Sunday.

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

For Brazil, these violent incidents constitute a "brutal attack against human rights", "that no principle of international law justifies remotely" and that "no nation can be silent".

On Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro prevented the entry into the country of humanitarian aid requested by the Speaker of the Parliament of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, appointed interim president of this body and recognized by fifty or so of nations, of which they Brazil and the United States.

At the borders with Brazil and Colombia, the Venezuelan police force used force to prevent groups of Venezuelans from setting up a humanitarian cordon to facilitate the entry of truckloaded aid.

"We have received tear gas, shots and pebbles on the Brazilian side and this is something that can not happen.The political field, diplomacy, must define whether it is or is not an attack on sovereignty, "denounced yesterday the lieutenant-colonel of the army, Jose Jacaúna, in charge of the operation Reception in the border zone.

Jacaúna told GloboNew that the Venezuelan border forces "have hidden" in response to attacks by protesters on the Brazilian side,

The Special Commission for Monitoring Humanitarian Aid reported 161 demonstrations across the country, 8 blocked border crossings, 2 trucks entered, 34 arrests, 131 wounded and 5 dead.