The United States offered humanitarian aid to Venezuela, but Maduro refused | Chronic

The United States has called on the Venezuelan army to allow entry of humanitarian aid arriving in the Colombian border town of Cucuta.

"Official officers and troops of Venezuela's armed forces have the opportunity to participate in a great humanitarian campaign, admirable, to provide an answer to the problems of your country"said the US ambbadador to Colombia, Kevin Whitaker.

For his part, the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, advised to leave this humanitarian aid in Cúcuta, where "There are enough needs and poverty."

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"All this humanitarian aid recovers it and distributes it to the inhabitants of Cúcuta who have enough, 70% of the poverty is north of Santander, there is in Cúcuta"Maduro said at a press conference he offered at the Miraflores Presidential Palace.

Several relief trucks destined for Venezuela have arrived in Cucuta, but it is unclear whether they can be delivered because the president believes that it is "a gift" rotten".

"The current that they have imposed on the media around the world is that Maduro refuses to help, as a gift, to the gift", said before pointing: "It's a rotten gift, it's a cheat package, the package is very beautiful on the outside, but inside, it brings the poison of humiliation ".

He said Venezuela had "blocked funds" of the order of $ 10 billion in various financial institutions around the world and that these resources would be used to guarantee "Widely everything the people need".

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"If they wanted to help, they should stop all economic sanctions, financial persecutions, the economic blockade that takes away 10 billion dollars should stop"he remarked.

"A country does not grow with crumbs and begging, it's the truth and we say it with dignity"he insisted.
Whitaker, for his part, pointed out that it was a humanitarian campaign "with an ethical and moral basis formed to relieve pain and hunger" of the Venezuelan people.

On the other hand, the ambbadador recalled that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has been "very clear about all the options"for Venezuela "They're on the table", with reference to a possible military intervention.

In this sense, the director of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (Ungrd), Eduardo José González, said that although the security forces participate in the operation, it is an "eminently" humanitarian task.