Nicolás Maduro ordered the total closure of the land border with Brazil

The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced Thursday the total closure of the land border with Brazil, two days after the start of the process of entry of international humanitarian aid into the country by the opposition, an initiative that the president rejected on the grounds that it was a pretext for military intervention.

"I decided, in southern Venezuela, from 20:00 (00:00 GMT) of this February 21 is completely and absolutely closed, until further notice, the land border with Brazil", badured the president at a meeting with the military high command at Fort Tiuna.

During a videoconference with the staff of the FANB and the commanders of the REDI, Maduro He also said that a total closure of the border with Colombia was being badessed.

Authorities Maritime and aerial borders with the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire were also closed this week for an indefinite period., which are off the western coast of Venezuela.

In the Colombian city of Cúcuta, in the Brazilian state of Roraima, Curacao and the city of Miami, collection centers for humanitarian aid were opened.

Maduro's ads occur in times when The opposition leader and president of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, went to the border with Colombia to lobby for help.