The Colombian government confirmed 5 dead and 285 wounded by the Maduro regime's repression during the passage of humanitarian aid

The Colombian government said Saturday that 285 people had been injured by the crackdown ordered by Nicolás Maduro's regime to prevent the entry of aid to Venezuela and ordered the return of the trucks with help humanitarian.

"This peaceful and humanitarian action has been interrupted since Venezuela under the usurper regime of Maduro with a violent and disproportionate repression"Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo said in a statement to the media.

According to the official, 285 wounded – 255 Venezuelans and 30 Colombians – "mainly because of the effects of tear gas and unconventional weapons"

As a result, "the return of the trucks was organized to protect the aid, with the exception of trucks on which drugs were burned on Venezuelan territory," said Holmes Trujillo.

On the other hand, the Colombian authorities have supported the figures of the day granted by the National Assembly of Venezuela according to which five people died and 51 others were arrested in Táchira because of the regime's actions at the various border crossing points.

Trujillo also confirmed that the figure of Members of the Venezuelan armed forces who defected and sought refuge in Colombia increased to more than 60 on Saturday.

"Today, more than 60 soldiers, including several officers, arrived unarmed in Colombian territory, who fled to Colombia, demonstrating the loss of confidence with the Maduro usurper regime," he said. declared. Trujillo in Cúcuta during a press conference.

Desertions, he says "occurred in the departments of Norte de Santander and Arauca during the day of today".

The people in uniform who decided to leave the ranks approached the Colombian authorities in Cúcuta, the northern capital of Santander, which is connected by the Simón Bolívar international bridge to the Venezuelan city of San Antonio, in the state from Táchira.

They also used the Francisco de Paula Santander Bridge, which connects Cúcuta to the town of Ureña, while in Arauca, the uniforms arrived in Colombia by the river of the same name.

With information from AFP and EFE