The Colombian government has announced the installation of a post in Cucuta to coordinate humanitarian aid to Venezuela

From Manizales, Colombian President Ivan Duque announced that the country would have a stock of humanitarian aid to Venezuela, in support of the opposition leader and president of the National Assembly of Venezuela Juan Guaidó, acting president of the neighboring country.

"I told him (in Guaidó) that Colombia was committed to providing all the necessary humanitarian support to the Venezuelan sister population.", Duque said about his meeting with the Venezuelan, according to the quote The weather.

The Duque announcement includes the installation of a unified command post in Cucuta., the main border crossing with Venezuela, from where the reception of international humanitarian aid will be coordinated which will be delivered in the neighboring country, detailed National Disaster Risk Management Unit (UNGRD).

Guaidó announced Saturday that "a"coalition of humanitarian aid"with collection centers in Cucuta, Brazil and on a Caribbean island, although he did not specify what it was.

In this sense, UNGRD stated that the PMU would coordinate, "with all the institutionality", receiving and storing humanitarian aid.

"The delivery of any aid to Colombia is not planned as part of this specific initiative, but the Colombian government is maintaining the humanitarian badistance programs implemented with Venezuelan migrants already present in our country." adds the report.

Administrator of the US International Cooperation Agency (USAID), Mark Greene, said Sunday on his Twitter account that this agency "works hard to help the people of Venezuela with humanitarian aid"who included"tons of food ready for malnourished children"

According to the figures of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the number of Venezuelan refugees and migrants in the world has reached three million and more than one million of them are in Colombia.

In addition, the unit stressed that not only is working with Guaidó, but also with other governments of the region and humanitarian badistance entities in the United States so that the reception and distribution of help to Venezuelans be carried out "efficiently and safely"

He also noted that governments and entities involved in the badistance will report "opportunely"on the next steps of the process.

The Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV) on Monday asked the authorities of the country to authorize the entry of humanitarian aid, which should arrive in the coming days at the borders.

However, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro badured that the country could get out of its problems of effort and work and urged to "reject the"bad show and cheap"from the opposition, referring to the delivery of humanitarian aid.

For its part, the Lima group, meeting Monday in Ottawa, called the Venezuelan armed forces to "does not prevent the entry and transit of humanitarian aid"

Just this Monday, the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced at the opening of the meeting the concession of 53 million Canadian dollars (about 39 million US dollars) of humanitarian aid to Venezuelans.

The Lima group, formed by Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay and Peru, as well as Mexico n & # 39; 39, having not participated in the meeting, met today in Ottawa with the aim of increasing Maduro 's executive so that he leaves power.

(With EFE information)