"Thanks to Guaidó, Maduro will no longer be able to steal the Venezuelan people"

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said today that Venezuela's President, Nicolás Maduro, "Can not continue to steal the people" thanks to the intervention of the representative appointed by the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, while revealing that his government will send humanitarian aid at the request of the Leader of the Opposition.

"As Juan Guaidó has established, Maduro will not be able to continue to deprive the people of Venezuela of their dreams and their chances. That's why the United States responded to his call by sending humanitarian aid to a warehouse in Colombia near the Venezuelan border to help the people that Maduro is dying of hunger, "said the US official in his account. Twitter staff.

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For its part, Guaidó launched a campaign on its social networks to "sensitize" the Venezuelan society on the humanitarian emergency situation in the country and the importance of the delivery of United States humanitarian aid to Venezuelan territory.

"Our goal is that once the emergency is over, every Venezuelan can be free and does not depend on the state to survive. We will not stop in front of those who deny the crisis because they are precisely responsible for generating it, "Guaidó said, according to the Europa Press news agency.

On Sunday, the Venezuelan opposition launched the Help and Freedom Network and began recruiting volunteers to distribute humanitarian aid offered by their foreign allies, led by the United States, to alleviate a crisis that they deny the Maduro government.

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The Venezuelan government has prevented the entry of humanitarian aid sent by the allied governments of Guaidó after the announcement of the installation of three collection centers at the borders with Brazil and Colombia – Las Tienditas – and a third in the Caribbean.

Also on Sunday, Guaidó announced the installation in the coming days of two other collection centers to receive humanitarian aid, one of them in Colombia.

"We can save lives in Venezuela with this humanitarian aid. In the coming days, the other two collection points will be officially installed, "Guaidó said after attending a prayer of the Grand Rosario for Venezuela at the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe Church in Caracas.

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He also badured that they were in contact with the Government of the Netherlands to set up a collection center in the Caribbean. "We are closing the collection center in the Caribbean with the Dutch government. And there will be a fourth point in another place in Colombia, "he said.

Venezuela is plunged into a political crisis since the National Assembly (parliament) appointed its president, the Guaidó opposition, on 23 January. as president "in charge" or "interim" of the country and not to recognize the new mandate of Maduro.

The United States has recognized Guaidó as legitimate president and warned that there were several options "on the table", including the military intervention.