The US Government sent three military airplanes loaded with humanitarian aid for Venezuela from Homestead Air Base, south of Miami, continuing the pressure exerted on President Nicolás Maduro.
The C-17 planes left Saturday morning for the Colombian city of Cúcuta, on the border with Venezuela, and transported food, personal hygiene items
The shipment, which is scheduled to arrive later today in the Colombian city, where the director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Mark Green, is after the Department of State announced on Friday the displacement of the airplanes.
According to the spokesman of that agency Robert Palladino, this new shipment of aid to the border crossing of Cúcuta is a “demonstration of the commitment of the US with the people of Venezuela” and, especially, with those “most vulnerable populations”.
Cúcuta is one of the three points for the collection of humanitarian aid and medicine for Venezuelans. The other two are in the Brazilian state of Roraima, bordering Venezuela, and another is on the island of Curaçao, an autonomous territory of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea.
On Friday, opposition leader Juan Guaidó, head of parliament and who proclaimed himself interim president of the country, announced on Twitter the creation in Miami of a new center for the collection of humanitarian aid after his petition to the international community.
This action accelerated the political crisis in Venezuela, because, in addition, a large part of the international community, such as the United States and several European and Latin American countries, have given their support to Guaidó and press for democratic elections to be called.
