Red Cross to deploy Venezuela similar operation to Syria

The international organization has received authorization from the Maduro regime to initiate the plan within 15 days.

CARACAS.- "The power of humanity seems to have prevailed". The Red Cross will deploy to Venezuela in two weeks a humanitarian aid operation similar to that conducted in Syria, both in terms of volume of drugs, supplies and power plants that will be distributed in hospitals and in number of volunteers . This was announced yesterday in Caracas by Francesco Rocca, president of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, after Nicolás Maduro's approval.

All the Bolivarian leaders have denied ad nauseam in recent years that their country, that of "supreme revolutionary happiness", was undergoing such an obvious humanitarian crisis, has been transformed into a flag and a struggle at the same time. Venezuelan society and opposition. Parliament declared the humanitarian emergency in 2016, but the Bolivarian executive ignored this decision, like all the others.

The Red Cross operation, so often rejected by Chavismo, comes almost two months after government forces prevented the pbadage of international humanitarian aid from Colombia and Brazil by fire and fire. blood.

"We will have the legal conditions to work in the country and access the necessary humanitarian aid, that will not solve the problems and no one should presume that it is the total solution," said Rocca, who counts more than 2,500 volunteers.

Venezuela is experiencing a disastrous social and economic situation that has direct consequences for public health services and the shortage of medicines. The Red Cross intends to act directly in this sector, even if it does not hesitate to limit its expectations, describing the beginning: "This will not solve the problem of health in Venezuela."

The first humanitarian "injection" will help 650,000 people. "We hope to expand this possibility," predicted the president of the Red Cross, who compared this operation to that conducted in Syria in terms of "scale of humanitarian action," Rocca said.

The first objective is the recovery of the hospitals' power stations, whose very bad condition has caused a number of deaths still unspecified during the two electric superpacks in March. "It's a priority if dialysis is not possible and people die," he said. "We can not accept that children are dying for lack of light, this is not a pathology, we will work in the electricity of hospitals with all our specialists," said the head of the hospital. ; NGOs.

Disinvestment, corruption, mismanagement, military interventionism and the flight of its most skilled technicians have made one of the best electrical systems on the continent the most vulnerable. Even yesterday, several states received energy only intermittently, while the water service was once again a crucial path.

The Red Cross announced without anesthesia that she was ready to denounce "any interference that may exist, this society is highly politicized and we can not harm our emblem," warned Rocca, who announced it would certify the badistance provided by Parliament. and the Colombian and Brazilian governments have gathered at the borders. "If it respects our protocol, we will distribute of course," he announced officially.

The Catholic Church immediately joined the initiative, which represents a radical turning point and a beacon of hope for the Venezuelan people. "We support every humanitarian initiative, because the important thing and the first thing that counts is the people, their dignity and their health.The International Red Cross tries to alleviate the suffering of the people as we have done since Caritas", said Cardinal Baltazar Porras.

The news supposes another information bomb, one more, in the middle of the challenge of the Parliament and the president in charge, Juan Guaidó, against the "son of Chávez". And only hours after the Contact Group, composed of the European Union and several countries in the region, announced that negotiations for the establishment of this humanitarian channel were very advanced.

"The announcement of the Church and the Red Cross on the entry of humanitarian aid is a great success of our struggle and we do not stop! We will help our system Electric and prepare the operation Freedom to end the usurpation, "Guaidó concluded.

"The announcement of the Red Cross is good news, humanitarian aid is a reality for the country and we have warned the world of the crisis in which our people are living and the need for". international humanitarian work. " the former governor Henrique Capriles, who for weeks became one of the biggest supporters of the speaker of Parliament, in front of radicals' critics.

The government has attempted to mitigate the scope of this news with the arrival from China of a cargo of 75 tons of medical equipment (surgical equipment, painkillers and diabetes medications).

Economic Vice President, Tareck El Aissami, led the commemorative act that followed the landing of the aid package in Beijing, which deepened Chavezism's propaganda rhetoric. : "It is an exercise of sovereignty, independence and dignity.

The official chief said that this way is inaugurated "an airlift for all medicines to arrive", which is also another revolutionary excuse, which ensured that the drug shortage, which exceeds 80% (only they find two remedies on 10 sought) is because of the sanctions of the United States.

After the announcement of the Red Cross, many government statements were unveiled, which categorically refuted the humanitarian crisis and also called it "the excuse" invented by the United States to invade the oil country.