Guaidó wants to touch a million volunteers

"Our main task is to reach one million volunteers before February 23. In person at meeting points or actively through social networks," asked the opposition leader in a message sent to the 600,000 people already registered .

At the request of Guaidó, recognized as interim president of 50 countries, groups of volunteers began working yesterday in several states of the country, at preparatory meetings and in so-called humanitarian camps.

Guaidó, the majority-dominated head of parliament, said the country was "preparing for the humanitarian avalanche," although he did not want to divulge details of how the imposed siege by the government will be overcome.

"We are going to announce specific things, little by little, the game won is not sung," said the 35-year-old, who advocates a transitional government and free elections.

President Nicolás Maduro ordered the army to block the entrance of aid in the fields of medicine and food, considering it as a "political spectacle" and the beginning from a US military invasion.

This impetus is felt in a country experiencing a socio-economic debacle with a shortage of drugs and hyperinflation that makes food unpayable. Due to the crisis, some 2.3 million Venezuelans have emigrated since 2015, according to the UN.

"By land and by sea"

Guaidó chose to participate in the aid on February 23, a month after his proclamation to the presidency, after Congress declared Maduro "usurper" for considering his re-election as "fraudulent".

During a mbadive ceremony during which he was sworn in to thousands of volunteers, the legislative leader called for mobilizations across Venezuela to accompany the brigades that will be traveling in a bus caravan to the points of departure. Cargo entry.

Three US military aircraft arrived Saturday in the Colombian city of Cucuta, where drugs and food have been stored since February 7, near the Tienditas border bridge, blocked by Venezuelan soldiers with trucks and other obstacles. .

Another storage center in Brazil will open today in the border region of Roraima, where only Brazilian aid will be grouped. A plane will arrive from Miami to Curaçao tomorrow with more American badistance, according to the Guaidó team. "He will enter yes or yes by land and sea," said the opponent. Another plane sent by Puerto Rico arrived Friday in Cucuta, while Chile and other countries are also collecting tons of help. Maduro describes it as a rotten and contaminated "crumb" of badistance, "and blames the shortage of sanctions imposed by the United States, which causes economic damage estimated at $ 30,000 million by Caracas.

Military deployment

Approaching February 23, Guaidó multiplies calls to the armed forces, backing Maduro, to let go of the aid, pointing out that people are going through hardships and that blocking it is a "crime against the police". humanity".

Friday, after a week of military maneuvers, the president asked the military high command to "implement a" special deployment plan "at the borders, in the face of US military action, not excluded by the Donald Trump government.

Maduro, who has the support of Russia, China, Turkey, Iran and Cuba – whose armed forces reiterated his support on Saturday – said Venezuela was at the center of the talks. a "geopolitical" struggle in which Washington seeks to appropriate Venezuelan gold and oil, using Guaidó as a "puppet".