Venezuela: humanitarian aid reportedly burnt by anti-Chavez demonstrator

On the basis of unpublished videos, the American newspaper reconstructed the facts and concluded that it was a homemade bomb thrown by a protester that caused the fire.

"At one point, a homemade bomb with a bottle was thrown at Maduro's security forces, blocking a bridge connecting Colombia and Venezuela to prevent the trucks being helped from pbading. the cloth used to blow the badtail mix is ​​separated and flew to the truck. A few seconds later, This truck was on fire ", says the report.

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As you can see in the pictures, the same protester appears in another video about twenty minutes before the start of the fire. throw a Molotov badtail against another vehicle, without burning it.

"Maduro is responsible for creating the conditions for the violence," he said at the time. Garrett Marquis, spokesperson for the US National Security Council.

The confrontation blocked the entry of humanitarian aid and had a balance of seven dead and hundreds wounded.