Aid Showdown: Venezuela Opposition Prepares to Deliver Goods
Aid Showdown: Venezuela Opposition Prepares to Deliver Goods
“I don’t know that anyone can give a timeline of when the dam might break, and it’s quite possible that it won’t,” said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Associated Press about Venezuela.
Venezuelans frustrated over their nation’s crippling food and medical shortages are expected to join opposition leaders Saturday in a potentially risky push to deliver international aid that Nicolas Maduro has refused to accept into the country.
The opposition is calling on masses of Venezuelans to help trucks carrying the nearly 200 metric tons of humanitarian assistance delivered largely by the United States over the last two weeks across several border bridges in Colombia...
“I don’t know that anyone can give a timeline of when the dam might break, and it’s quite possible that it won’t,” said Eric Farnsworth of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society, a Washington-based think tank...
