The Venezuelan National Guard blocked the caravan of deputies traveling to the border with Colombia

The National Guard of Venezuela (GNB, militarized police) blocked Thursday the journey of a caravan of opposition MPs heading to the border crossing with Colombia, forcing leaders to get off the buses and to hold a brief confrontation with the uniform.

According to videos broadcast by social networks, the GNB released tear gas and fought with parliamentarians, a scene that occurred in the La Cabrera tunnel, connecting the states of central Aragua and Carabobo, few local afternoon. .

This is how the Venezuelan National Guard suppresses, I do not want it in my country. You boys @ MorenaSenadores ?#GuardiaCivilSinSimulacion #AsiNOLaGuardiaNacional #NoALaMilitarization pic.twitter.com/CVbas3ur7W

The scene was experienced Thursday at noon in the viaduct of the central region of the country when deputies were traveling with the humanitarian caravan in the state of Táchira to leave in search of humanitarian aid likely to penetrate into the country. Saturday, February 23rd.

In one of these videos, one can hear parliamentarian Richard Blanco urging officials to let the procession pbad and ask them if they can easily find food and medicine.

Already the justice and peace commission of the National Assembly, we are going to the Colombian border to receive humanitarian aid with the deputies, the president @not a word and thousands of Venezuelans who will accompany us this # 23F pic.twitter.com/67Sta6yn5e

"These gentlemen are instructed to prevent the MPs from reaching the border, but they will not get it, they will have to fence the whole country so that humanitarian aid does not arrive." They are just us now, "said MP Arnoldo Benítez at the VPI TV news channel.

The parliamentarian denounced the fact that "some" deputies remained in office and that the national guards blocked the pbadage with a garbage truck.

A few hours ago, Venezuela's acting president, named by parliament, Juan Guaidó, an anti-fighter, left another caravan of vehicles going from Caracas to the Colombian border in search of humanitarian aid that He plans to enter his country on Saturday, the local press reported. .

The newspaper El Nacional and the information portal Efecto Cocuyo announced that the caravan had been driven by Guaidó and many deputies of the AN, who presided over the anti-Chavez leader, had left Caracas in the middle of the morning and would travel about 900 kilometers to get to the west of Venezuela. Táchira

In the absence of official confirmation, it is presumed that Guaidó's destination is San Antonio, a city in Táchira bordering the Colombian town of Cúcuta, one of the points where anti-Chavism and its foreign allies have supplied food and medicine. for Venezuela, whose entry the Nicolás Maduro government opposes.

The other two sites are the Caribbean island of Curacao and the Brazilian border state of Roraima.

A few hours before the departure of the caravan, the Venezuelan police carried out heavy vehicle inspections on a highway crossed by the caravan and at the height of where Guaidó was supposed to stop making statements to the press.

The Chavez government has blocked the Las Tienditas border bridge, which "although it was completed in 2016, it has never been activated" connects Venezuela to Cucuta.

On the bridge will be held tomorrow a concert in which more than 30 national and international artists will participate in order to collect 100 million dollars of humanitarian aid to Venezuelans.

A day later, the arrival of humanitarian aid is expected one month after the inauguration of Guaidó to the presidency of Venezuela.

The Venezuelan opposition ensures that the country is going through a "complex humanitarian emergency". Guaidó reaffirmed Wednesday that donations would enter "yes or yes" this Saturday despite the refusal of the Maduro government, which rejected them.

The Chavist leader said that this aid was a "rotten gift", carrying the "poison of humiliation", even though he acknowledged the difficulties facing the South American nation.