Venezuela: military blockade denounced on the bridge where humanitarian aid would enter

The Venezuelan army has blocked the Tienditas border bridge, a modern and recent infrastructure linking the country to Colombia and where humanitarian aid is expected to arrive, opposition leader Franklyn Duarte said on Wednesday.

"What blocks (…) the Tienditas bridge, where the army presumes that humanitarian aid will arrive, it's a (truck) tank, a container and nowadays. "A convoy arrived at dawn of the national armed forces," Duarte said.

The Tienditas Bridge connects the Colombian city of Cúcuta with the Venezuelan city of Ureña, in the state of Táchira, and is one of the promises of integration between the two countries.

Duarte, a parliamentarian from Táchira, said the blockade was an order of power in power, Nicolás Maduro, and the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López.

He also posted on his Twitter account the image of a military vehicle on a bridge.

"I can badure you that these soldiers who are there, and many of whom are from different commandos, need humanitarian help for themselves and their families, and we will see if the day and time will prohibit the entry of drugs and food in despair, "says the message that accompanies the photo.

They deny the scam

The Venezuelan Embbady in Lisbon has denied today that it has attempted to transfer Portuguese money Novo Banco to Uruguay a transfer of funds of one million dollars to Uruguay, as denounced Tuesday the National Assembly of Venezuela to which the government of Nicolás Maduro opposes.

In a statement sent today, the embbady "publicly denies" statements on an alleged missing transfer and linked the complaint to "an unprecedented media campaign against the country's legitimate rulers".

The alleged transfer attempt was denounced by opposition MP Carlos Paparoni, who said yesterday that the Maduro government had attempted to transfer – through its embbady in Lisbon – about $ 1.2 billion from Novo Banco to offices in Uruguay. the republic and the banks of bands.

"Until now, this transaction could be halted, protecting the resources of all Venezuelans and preventing their theft," added the deputy, who said that this operation had been blocked by the central bank of the country. Uruguay.

The Venezuelan Embbady in Portugal called the accusation of "irresponsible and misleading" and said that it was "alarming to use this type of deception aimed at manipulating the Public opinion ".

In addition, he stressed that Paparoni's statement was intended to "show that the legitimate government of President Nicolás Maduro was acting fraudulently on the state's financial funds".

The possibility that Venezuelan badets from Novo Bank will be transferred was denounced on Monday by the President of the Venezuelan Parliament, Juan Guaidó, who was granted two weeks ago the powers of the executive as President of the country with the support of the National Assembly.

Then Guaidó warned that he would take the "relevant steps" to avoid the transfer.

On January 15, the Parliament of the Caribbean countries asked 46 countries that do not allow the Maduro government to extract Venezuela's resources from the country in order to "guarantee protection" with a view to "not not count the "Venezuela" with legal representation before the regulators ".

The same request was made to the private banks of these countries, a list in which, besides the 28 Member States of the European Union, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United States, Bulgaria, Russia, China, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.