Marco Rubio: "Nicolás Maduro's refusal to let food and medicine go is a war crime"

"Under the Geneva Convention, refusal to let food and medicine go to civilian populations would be a war crime. That's what they are forced to do, "said Senator Marco Rubio about Nicolás Maduro's request to the Venezuelan army to prevent him from accessing humanitarian aid sent to Venezuela by United States.

"At the end, all this falls on the people of Venezuela. And by that, I mean the members of the National Guard, the Armed Forces and the Police. They must decide their own destiny and their future, "said the Republican representative of the state of Florida in an interview with the agency. NAC.

The senator, who is also advisor to the Trump administration for the crisis in Venezuela, has raised the possibility of a Maduro resignation. "Do I think Maduro will eventually come out of power? Totally I think he's going to do it willingly? I do not know, but a lot depends on the people who support him, "he said.

From his point of view, "if four or five of the main military leaders" abandoned him and recognized Juan Guaidó as president, he could not continue. "We would see the end of the Maduro regime".

The Bolivarian National Guard has been blocking access to the Tienditas Bridge for several days and links the cities of Cúcuta, Colombia, and Táchira, Venezuela. The intention is that humanitarian aid can not go through.

"I think that at the moment there is a message to give to our soldiers, that they will have to take a position: to take the side of the dictatorship that is not going anywhere and that does not care about the suffering of our people, nor the Constitution and on the side of people who need food and medicine, "said Carlos Vecchio, ambbadador appointed by Juan Guaidó in the United States, during an exclusive interview with Infobae.

"The worst sanction Venezuela has today is Nicolás Maduro. That he does not care about our people, in order to maintain the privileges of power, to maintain its criminal state and its corruption, and to feed the Cuban regime, "said Vecchio.

On the other hand, the diplomat rejected the possibility of a negotiation like the previous ones. "We do not agree with a false dialogue handled. Maduro has already done so in the past: he did it in 2014, 15, 16, 17, 18. We have participated in dialogues with the international community, without the international community, with the Vatican and without the Vatican, "he said.

"Every time," continued Vecchio, "Maduro made a manipulation to reduce the pressure, to stay in power, and after each event, there were more political prisoners., less democracy and more economic and social crisis. So we will not take part in a false dialogue, but about what we need to talk about, it is when the Maduro regime will withdraw, when Maduro will leave power. "