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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeriously 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
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democrank
(11,096 posts)1. Horrible
underpants
(182,829 posts)2. Saw it in the front page of The Wall Street Journal
That is some serious just meanness.
rampartc
(5,412 posts)3. "humanitarian aid" might be guns and such
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
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.