Long lines go to Caracas, this time for humanitarian aid – 21/04/2019

Hundreds of Venezuelans go to the Red Cross in Caracas receive humanitarian aid have entered the country last Tuesday and for which they have a long line of waiting until they deliver drums and pills to purify the water that is today also rare in the South American nation. Some, like José Martínez, retired systems engineer, aged 63, came in the hope of getting medication, but were happy to know that they would only get one. a tin can and a box of water purification tablets. Martinez, who was wearing a red shirt with the image of the late President Hugo Chávez (1999-2013), said he found "humanitarian" support in the midst of the "extraordinary" crisis, while baduring that the "crisis" was over. water "would come" regularly to his home. , I made my line to receive the 20 liter bucket.

"I find this extraordinary and we were also expecting them to give us a medicine.I have brought my medical justification, but today they only deliver the containers for the treatment." Water and water treatment, "he said.

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The man, who was also leaning on a cane, was criticized by a woman, María Teresa Zúñiga, who, on the contrary, told Efe that she was receiving water at her home every eight days and that She was "completely filled with black sand".

Despite the fact that the Red Cross authorities have asked not to politicize the humanitarian aid, the 57-year-old woman did not hesitate to say that the support granted to Venezuela on Tuesday was a success of the "acting president", referring to the Speaker of Parliament, the opponent Juan Guaidó.

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Since aid was introduced to deal with the crisis that President Nicolás Maduro insisted on until the beginning of the year, all sectors of Venezuelan society, including politicians, have celebrated this support as a "victory".

The shipment shipped contains 24 tons of humanitarian aid, including emergency drugs, 14 power plants and drums of water storage.

The delivery of cans and pills to the residents of Caracas took place from Tuesday when help came from Panama.

According to representatives of the Red Cross, these distributions also took place in other popular communities in the center-west of the capital, such as Caricuao, on January 23, in La Candelaria and San Bernardino. In addition, the institution offers talks on how to purify water with pills and in the case of not having them.

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Although the waiting line seemed to sink quickly, a neighbor of the region identified as Yadira and who was at the end of the row told Efe that he had been in the queue for two hours and had reiterated the complaint filed by various communities regarding supply disruptions. d & # 39; water.

"In my house – the water – it came often, but now that the problem exists, when the light goes out, the water disappears (…) the light does not come not extinct but we are still without water, I do not know if there will be one, I think that since Thursday we are without water, "he said.

The activity went off normally until the drums were exhausted and many of them became angry.

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In the midst of the situation, journalist Frank Thomas Guerra, of Venezuelan media Venepress, was also arrested for a few minutes, according to the Venezuelan press workers union (SNTP).

According to the union, the communicator has received complaints from people claiming that officers of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) "had brought drums with water purification tablets as part of the humanitarian aid. ".

The SNTP badured that the journalist, already released, had "deleted the video" containing these denunciations.

Source: EFE