The President of Paraguay will also visit Cucuta to assist with the delivery of humanitarian aid to Venezuela

The President of the Republic of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez, will travel Thursday to Cúcuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela, to attend the ceremony of distribution of humanitarian aid to Venezuelans, scheduled this Friday with its colleagues. the Presidents of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, and Colombia, Iván Duque.

The initiative is being promoted by the head of the Venezuelan legislative branch, Juan Guaidó, who has so far been elected president in charge of Venezuela in some 50 countries, including Paraguay, Chile and Colombia.

Recall also that the Government of Paraguay, already headed by Abdo Benítez, was the first South American nation not to recognize the second term and to sever diplomatic relations with the dictatorial regime of Nicolás Maduro.

Abdo Benítez also ordered the closure of the Paraguayan embbady in Caracas and the "immediate withdrawal" of accredited diplomatic staff in the Caribbean country. also facilitating the return of Paraguayan citizens who were on Venezuelan lands through the Secretariat of Returnees.

The Guarani President's decision was based on the Lima Group's declaration that Paraguay had signed with 12 other countries on 4 January. In this statement, the multinational body determined the non-recognition of the new mandate of Nicolás Maduro "because it results from an illegitimate electoral process".

Last week, the Government of Chile, Mr. Sebastian Piñera, officially announced that he would send 17 tons of food and medicine to Venezuela to remedy the crisis that the country is going through, to help the citizens Venezuelans in deplorable conditions and react in this way to the call made by Guaidó.

The Chilean contribution is in addition to the humanitarian aid promised by the United States on Friday, November 23, considered by the Venezuelan opposition as a key date for the entry of medical-food badistance in Venezuela and Colombia. another challenge for the chavista regime this closed its borders at the entrance of these aids and announced the arrival of 300 tons of humanitarian aid from Russia for this Wednesday 20.

For this Friday, a mega-concert of a humanitarian nature is also in preparation, in which a collection of millions of dollars is expected, which will also be aimed at the purchase of drugs and other commodities, that the l & # 39; we do not currently find in Venezuela.

Among the artists who will participate in this concert are Carlos Vives, Peter Gabriel, Luis Fonsi, Alejandro Sanz, Juan Luis Guerra, Juanes, Ricardo Montaner, Diego Torres, Miguel Bosé and Maluma.

According to a dispatch from the EFE, this mega-concert would take place almost eleven years after the first concert "Peace Without Borders", organized outdoors and free on the international bridge Simón Bolívar, which connects Cúcuta to San Antonio del Táchira , with the aim of transmitting the message of brotherhood to the peoples of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.