Venezuela: Guaidó asked the military not to be "genocidal" – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

Venezuela's interim president, anti-Guamanist leader Juan Guaidó, on Sunday urged his country's armed forces not to "ridicule" or be "genocidal" and let the country into the country. 39, international humanitarian aid already arrived from neighboring Colombia.

"It's up to you not to continue to make fun of yourself at the request of Miraflores," he told a group of journalists after celebrating a Mbad at the Nuestra Church Señora de Guadalupe in Caracas, evoking the presidential palace of Miraflores and the government of Nicolás Maduro. .

"The blockage of humanitarian aid also makes them genocidal," he said after accusing Maduro of being the chief culprit of international aid that had already begun to arrive in the city border of Cúcuta, but could not enter to be distributed among the Venezuelan population.

Over the past three years, more than 2.3 million Venezuelans have left their country due to a growing shortage of food, medicine and staples, a fact that the representatives of the country have not been able to afford it. UN have already called it a humanitarian crisis.

The Maduro government claims that the economic problems are due to the sanctions imposed by the United States, which have already begun this exodus, and therefore rejects the offers of humanitarian aid presented by the governments of the region and the region. 39 Europe who recognized the legitimacy of Guaidó. in the last weeks.

According to Maduro, the Caribbean country does not have to "ask" for help and has not accepted any international offers to receive containers that have arrived in Colombia and are expected to reach Brazil soon. and some Caribbean border islands, according to Guaidó. past.

Although he still does not have the green light of Maduro nor the cooperation of the armed forces, who remain loyal to the president, Guaidó promised today that humanitarian aid would arrive in the country "in the coming days".

"The help is in kind in the collection centers and we hope that in the coming days we will have a first step forward in the entry of humanitarian aid," he said after having left the mbad in statements collected by the EFE news agency.

In addition, he announced the creation of two other collection centers, in addition to the one already installed in the Colombian city of Cúcuta.

"We can save lives in Venezuela with this humanitarian aid.In the coming days, the two other collection points will be officially installed," said Guaidó, acting president of Venezuela by the National Assembly (parliament), to the majority opposed to the Maduro government on 23 January.

The anti-Chavez leader also announced that the opposition was organizing Tuesday a new protest and rejection of the Maduro government.