UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Sunday condemned the “excessive use of force” by Venezuelan security forces after deadly clashes erupted on the borders with Colombia and Brazil. “These are disgraceful scenes. The Venezuelan government must stop its forces from using excessive force against unarmed protesters and ordinary citizens.”
Read MoreCuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel defended his close Venezuelan ally Nicolas Maduro on Sunday as he warned of what he called an “imperial threat” hanging over Latin America. He spoke to the press after casting his vote Sunday in a referendum on Cuba’s new constitution.
Read MoreDiosdado Cabello, the president of the National Constituent Assembly, described on Sunday morning what he considers the defeat of the opposition’s plans orchestrated with the United States to generate destabilization and violence as part of the maneuvers to justify a military intervention in Venezuela and a coup d’etat, reported the pro-government website Noticias 24.
Read MoreVenezuelan volunteers were defying an army blockade on Saturday in an attempt to bring humanitarian aid into their crisis-hit country from Colombia while unrest spread on the Venezuelan side of the border. Three trucks carrying aid that managed to cross into Venezuela were completely burned by Police. In Caracas, President Maduro broke off relations with Colombia.
Read MoreThe Venezuelan opposition and Colombia on Saturday launched an operation to take humanitarian aid to Venezuela while clashes between soldiers loyal to Nicolas Maduro and pro-aid demonstrators raged on the Venezuelan side of the border.
Read MoreA six-floor building where the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar once lived was blown up in the city of Medellin in an attempt to discourage interest in his life. The Monaco building, located in a wealthy neighborhood of Colombia’s second-largest city, was destroyed in a spectacular explosion on Friday that sent a huge cloud of reddish dust over the area.
Read MoreThe concert hosted by British billionaire Richard Branson is being held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today in the Colombian city of Cucuta on the end of the Tienditas border bridge, which the Venezuelan opposition wants to use to take tons of foreign humanitarian aid into the country on Saturday.
Read MorePresidents Juan Carlos Varela of Panama and Carlos Alvarado of Costa Rica called for dialogue as the way to overcome the crisis that has engulfed Nicaragua since last April. Meeting on February 20, the two heads of state also spoke of the need to investigate the hundreds of deaths that have resulted from the socio-political crisis.
Read MoreOne day before the beginning of an unpredictable weekend with great consequences for the lives of Venezuelans, Hugo Carvajal, the former military intelligence chief in Venezuela, left the government of Nicolas Maduro and offered his loyalty to the self-proclaimed interim presidente, Juan Guaido.
Read MoreMore than 30 singers and bands will give a free public concert this Friday on the Tienditas International Bridge, located between Colombia and Venezuela, for which they hope to collect more than 100 million dollars that will be donated to the Venezuelan people due to the humanitarian crisis they suffer.
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