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underpants

(182,829 posts)
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 11:32 AM Feb 2019

Seriously messed up picture - Madura blocks highway to stop humanitarian aid


Venezuelan troops positioned truck trailers and shipping containers to block lanes of a major highway link with Colombia in order to prevent opponents of the government from bringing food and medicine into Venezuela.


Venezuela Blocks Highway to Stop Aid Shipment Organized by Opposition

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/world/americas/venezuela-aid.html
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Seriously messed up picture - Madura blocks highway to stop humanitarian aid (Original Post) underpants Feb 2019 OP
Horrible democrank Feb 2019 #1
Saw it in the front page of The Wall Street Journal underpants Feb 2019 #2
"humanitarian aid" might be guns and such rampartc Feb 2019 #3
But it's not. Read about what's going on Hortensis Feb 2019 #4

rampartc

(5,412 posts)
3. "humanitarian aid" might be guns and such
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 11:41 AM
Feb 2019

maduro may be wise to prevent contraband to arrive from trump.

remember the kiwauti incubators, or the weapons of mass destruction.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. But it's not. Read about what's going on
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 11:48 AM
Feb 2019

to avoid supporting viciously ruthless authoritarians doing great harm.

Venezuela used to be an advanced nation with a large middle class who were as much strangers to hunger and addicted to plentiful comforts as we are.

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