Maduro blocked the border with Colombia and stopped the entrance of humanitarian aid

The army will block the Tienditas bridge with three truckson the border with Colombia, where there is a drug and food collection center, Venezuela is experiencing serious shortages.

"This is an absurd reaction of a regime that does not interest the citizen and we will do our utmost to continue to invest some of this aid," said Guaidó, who still does not give details of the situation. shipments, which will be collected. also in Brazil and on a Caribbean island.

When we talk about the blockade of the bridge, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanded that Maduro "let in" the help that "the Venezuelan people desperately need".

Guaidó said the militants were in a "dilemma" and described as "political clumsiness" on the part of the government to deny badistance, arguing that it would act as a bridge towards a US military intervention.

"It's an inexpensive show, Venezuela is not a country of beggars," said the socialist president, accused of the lack of US sanctions, during a visit to a laboratory.

Seeking to break up the armed forces, Maduro's support, Donald Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton, announced that the United States considered "exempting from sanctions" any high-ranking Venezuelan army that "recognizes Guaidó," said Maduro. a call for a coup d'etat ".

In the most serious crisis of its modern history, Venezuela lacks 85% of medicines and food. Some 2.3 million people have emigrated since 2015, according to the UN.

Guaidó called for a mobilization on February 12 and another date to be set to ask the army to give way to help, starting with "300,000 Venezuelans on the verge of losing their lives" .

On February 13, Trump will receive Colombian President Ivan Duque to discuss the Venezuelan crisis. The next day, an international conference on humanitarian aid will be held at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS).

At the end of an ultimatum in Maduro to call a presidential election, some twenty European countries on Monday acknowledged Mr. Guaidó as interim president, but Italy has prevented a support bloc of the European Union (EU).

"We are discussing today with EU representatives to strengthen their support and democratic transition," Guaidó said., Leader of the Parliament of the majority of the opposition, 35 years old.

In trying to attract Rome, he asked the Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, to receive Venezuelan opposition delegates, to explain his "transitional plan for to restore democracy in Venezuela ".

European recognition is added to that of the United States – with which Maduro broke diplomatic relations to obtain support from Guaidó -, from Canada and from a dozen countries in Latin America.

"We tried to set up a parallel government that failed, which does not exist, virtual," said Wednesday Maduro, which includes among its allies Russia, China, Iran and Turkey.

Guaidó will ask the EU to "protect" Venezuelan accounts and badets, as did Washington, which will ban the purchase of Venezuelan oil from April 28.

The Venezuelan representative to OPEC, Ronny Romero, told RIA Novosti that the 500,000 barrels sold in the United States "will be redirected to other customers in Europe and Asia". "Russia and China do not care about Washington sanctions," he added.

Several countries are trying to find a way out of the crisis. Uruguay and Mexico have proposed with Caricom a mechanism for dialogue without preconditions. Delegates from eight EU countries and five delegates from Latin America will meet Thursday in Montevideo (Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Uruguay and Mexico).

Maduro hopes that a conversation table will come out and send a letter to Pope Francis this week asking him to help "on the way to dialogue".

"The Venezuelan opposition (…) will not lend itself to any false dialogue," said the opposition leader.

But Guaidó asked Francisco Wednesday to "show" the need to "move to an orderly transition process that stabilizes the country," in order to defuse the possibility of a negotiation.

On Wednesday, he began a day collecting 10 million signatures, which he called Maduro against "Trump's interventionist action".

"Everyone wants to finish with Venezuela, I came to sign against Trump's evil"Carmen Cedeño, 61, told AFP in downtown Plaza Bolivar.

Guaidó was proclaimed acting president on Jan. 23 after the parliament declared Maduro "usurper" for being re-elected in contested elections both inside and outside the country. Venezuela.