US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Venezuela's military was deliberately blocking the aid with trucks and shipping containers "under Maduro's orders." "The Maduro regime must LET THE AID REACH THE STARVING PEOPLE," Pompeo said in a tweet. Guaido claims that up to 300,000 people face death if the aid is not delivered, following years of economic crisis and shortages of basic food and medicines. Tanker trucks and shipping containers were moved into position late Tuesday on the Tienditas bridge, a key crossing point on the border with Colombia. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the EU of trying to "topple the government by violence and ruse."

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 07, 2019 03:00 UTC