There’s utter chaos in Venezuela. Nicolás Maduro is doing his best to keep humanitarian aid out of the country, because he wants his people to starve.
It is D-day in #Venezuela 🇻🇪. Thousands of Venezuelan volunteers will try to get humanitarian aid across the border as #Maduro has closed all border crossings with 🇨🇴🇧🇷🇳🇱-🇨🇼.
Protesters at the Simon Bolivar bridge near #Cúcuta are trying to cross over from the Colombian side. pic.twitter.com/F8mtDPWZ3f
— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) February 23, 2019
People just climbed the trucks with humanitarian aid and head to the Bolivar bridge. They will try and cross the border there. #VenezuelaLibre #Venezuela #23feb ##AyudaHumanitaria pic.twitter.com/GDDUTGMPaS
— Marjolein van de Water (@marjoleinvandew) February 23, 2019
They are straight up lighting the humanitarian aid trucks on fire.
UPDATE One of the humanitarian aid trucks has just been lit on fire on the Francisco de Paula Santander bridge between Colombia and Venezuela. Our WCK team is safe in Cúcuta and not on the bridge. #Venezuela #AyudaHumanitaria pic.twitter.com/ahsqn8lMZV
— WorldCentralKitchen (@WCKitchen) February 23, 2019
#Venezuela 🇻🇪: trucks carrying hard-needed humanitarian aid are burning on the border with #Colombia, reportedly after #GNB forces fired tear gas canister into the vehicles.
Protesters are trying to save as much supplies as they can. #23Feb pic.twitter.com/pzL6dktfA2
— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) February 23, 2019
Desperate attempts in Ureña, Venezuela to get humanitarian aid out of burning trucks, after Maduro’s armed forces lit them on fire. (video from @NTN24ve) pic.twitter.com/3MqvfQjT1w
— Kevin Rincon (@KevRincon) February 23, 2019
the vans carrying the humanitarian aid shipment are being burned. Help pic.twitter.com/LwFi6CTGYC
— Gina P-G (@Ginalopezr) February 23, 2019
The Venezuelan military is setting fire on the trucks carrying the humanitarian aid.
Yes. You read right. Burning food and medicines.
Animals and criminals. https://t.co/t8ZXhCuZZ4
— Dany Bahar (@dany_bahar) February 23, 2019
Absolutely horrific.