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[webfact]

Thousands of Venezuelans break barricades, cross Colombia border

 

People stand on a container that blocks the Simon Bolivar bridge between Colombia and Venezuela in Cucuta, Colombia, April 2, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer

 

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Thousands of Venezuelans broke through barricades along the international border with Colombia on Tuesday, according to the migration office in Bogota, which warned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that he would be held responsible for any problems that may occur.

 

Maduro in February blocked bridges joining the two nations in a bid to prevent a U.S.-backed effort to distribute hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid to the crisis-wracked nation.

 

With bridges blocked by containers and trucks, Venezuelans have been wading through the Tachira River to reach the city of Cucuta, on Colombia's northern border, to find food, medicines and work. But torrential rains in recent days has made that impossible.

 

"The usurper Maduro is responsible for anything that may happen to the population that is transiting between the two countries," said Christian Kruger, head of Colombia's migration agency, highlighting the risk to the Simon Bolivar bridge being weakened.

 

Millions of Venezuelans have fled to Colombia to escape widespread shortages of food and medicine in their homeland, seeking jobs locally and passage into other Latin American countries.

 

Venezuela plunged into a deep political crisis in January, when Juan Guaido, head of the opposition-controlled congress, invoked the constitution to assume an interim presidency, arguing Nicolas Maduro's 2018 re-election was not legitimate.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump has taken steps to ratchet up pressure on Maduro and bolster Guaido, who has been recognised as president by the United States and more than 50 other countries, including Colombia.

 

Colombia's government says providing Venezuelan migrants access to basic services and expanding healthcare, education and public utilities costs it a half percentage point of annual gross domestic product. Colombia's GDP in 2018 was some $312 billion.

 

(Reporting by Helen Murphy and Luis Jaime Acosta; editing by Bill Berkrot)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-04-03

[rocketman777]

Gross exaggeration , Staged western media propaganda.

 

No bridges have been closed. The Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Paula Santander while not allowing the USAID vehicles in, both bridges remain open to cross-border traffic.

 

In fact you can see video shot by independent journalist such as  Max Blumenthal , Abby Martin of people peacefully walking across theses bridges in BOTH directions

 

 

[atyclb]

3 minutes ago, rocketman777 said:

Gross exaggeration , Staged western media propaganda.

 

No bridges have been closed. The Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Paula Santander while not allowing the USAID vehicles in, both bridges remain open to cross-border traffic.

 

In fact you can see video shot by independent journalist such as  Max Blumenthal , Abby Martin of people peacefully walking across theses bridges in BOTH directions

 

 

is the humanitarian crisis a hoax?  is the cia really paying hundreds of thousands of people to make it look they are desperate 

[Syduan]

1 hour ago, atyclb said:

is the humanitarian crisis a hoax?  is the cia really paying hundreds of thousands of people to make it look they are desperate 

More or less. 

 

[atyclb]

6 minutes ago, Syduan said:

More or less. 

 

very interesting.  always good to keep an open mind.  regime change 101 .  lol

Edited April 3, 2019 by atyclb

[zydeco]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Millions of Venezuelans have fled to Colombia to escape widespread shortages of food and medicine in their homeland, seeking jobs locally and passage into other Latin American countries.

Why don't they rebel against Chicom backed Maduro? Do something, instead of running away. Were it my country, I'd be heading back to join opposition.

[zydeco]

29 minutes ago, atyclb said:

very interesting.  always good to keep an open mind.  regime change 101 .  lol

Always good to question Russian backed propaganda network RT, too.

[atyclb]

4 minutes ago, zydeco said:

34 minutes ago, atyclb said:

very interesting.  always good to keep an open mind.  regime change 101 .  lol

Always good to question Russian backed propaganda network RT, too.

 

 

maintain an open mind to all possibilities absolutely

[zydeco]

7 minutes ago, atyclb said:

 

 

maintain an open mind to all possibilities absolutely

Perspective doesn't hurt either. Who are Maduro's allies? Putin, Xi, Erdogan, Castro, Assad, Ortega, and the Iranian mullahs. Just about every dictator or wannabe dictator on the planet. All the countries where they murder or jail the opposition and the press. 

[unblocktheplanet]

I was just on a plane with a Colombian family. Is there a hard currency crisis in Venezuela, like the Reichsmarks to Zimbabwe trillion dollar bills? As many countries before, Venezuela will float their currency to equilibrium. Yes, of course, but they did not think Venezuela(ns) so desperate because...they have oil. Which is why, of course, the US is sniffing its ass.