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Venezuela’s self-proclaimed Acting President Juan Guaido arrived on the country’s border with Colombia to organise the entry of humanitarian aid that incumbent Nicolas Maduro rejects as a plot to create a pretext for US military intervention. Guaido, who reached the border on Thursday, said that the humanitarian aid being stored at border points in Colombia and Brazil, as well as on the island of Curacao, would be brought into the country on Saturday, reports Efe news. The aid is being provided by the US and several other of the roughly 50 countries that have recognised Guaido as Acting President in the weeks following his January 23 proclamation. Two days ago, Maduro’s government suspended all maritime and air travel between Venezuela and Curacao, a self-governing part of the Netherlands, whose government backs Guaido’s claim to the presidency. The Venezuelan leader says the humanitarian aid initiative is a ruse and that the opposition’s ultimate goal is a military invasion aimed at ending 20 years of leftist rule. Maduro announced on Thursday the arrival of 7.5 tons of medical supplies from Russia. “The medicines we need, they are arriving in Venezuela every week on a permanent basis,” he said. Three years ago, the National Assembly declared a state of emergency in response to chronic shortages of medical supplies and the deterioration of health-care infrastructure. The latest results of the latest National Survey of Hospitals, released on Thursday, show that 1,557 patients died due to a lack of medicines or other vital supplies. Maduro uses the term “blockade” to refer to Washington’s sanctions on the Venezuelan government, which began under former President Barack Obama but have been sharply escalated by incumbent Donald Trump and now constitute a virtual financial quarantine of Caracas. Days after recognising Guaido as acting president, the Trump administration blocked the Maduro administration from receiving proceeds from the sale of Venezuelan oil to the US. The UK, which likewise recognizes Guaido, has refused Maduro’s request to repatriate Venezuelan gold reserves kept in London. The Colombian aid depot is in Cucuta, which is linked to the Venezuelan city of San Cristobal by the Tienditas bridge, a modern span completed in 2016 that has never been opened to traffic amid ongoing quarrels between Bogota and Caracas over migration, smuggling and cross-border crime. As the US shipments began to arrive in Cucuta, the Venezuelan army parked large vehicles on their side of Tienditas, which was already bisected by mental fencing.

Posted By: Adminon: February 22, 2019No Comments

What Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have been doing while the Jaish-e-Mohammad engineered the suicide attack that killed over 40 Central Reserve Police Force soldiers in Pulwama on 14 Febr... Read more

Akhilesh Yadav: While CRPF jawans’ families mourn, BJP is busy with inaugurations

Posted By: Adminon: February 22, 2019No Comments

Addressing a press conference along with Patidar leader Hardik Patel, the former UP CM said the govt should explain how the bus carrying security personnel was hit by an explosive-laden vehi... Read more

BJP gained no electoral dividend after Kargil and may not gain after Pulwama

Posted By: Adminon: February 22, 2019No Comments

Wars do not always help ruling parties win elections. BJP in fact lost in UP after Kargil while in the Lok Sabha its number was the same it had won in the poll before the war The popular mis... Read more

AS Dulat: PM Modi must weigh his options carefully; war is not a picnic

Posted By: Adminon: February 22, 2019No Comments

“PM Modi has been lucky so far, but he must weigh his options carefully. War is not a picnic,” Former Special Director at IB and former chief of RAW, AS Dulat said during a chat with Ashlin... Read more

Nitish Kumar puts RJD on back foot with quota for upper caste, insulates BJP from backward class anger over SC/ST Atrocities Bill

Posted By: Adminon: February 21, 2019No Comments

Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has been engaged in caste arithmetic and in the process, he literally hijacked the RJD agenda to provide more reservation for... Read more

Shiv Sena both insurance and risk for BJP; its actions prove party is a partner that can’t be trusted as an ally

Posted By: Adminon: February 21, 2019No Comments

All said and done, the alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena highlights at least two significant developments: One, the BJP’s nervousness, and two, the Sh... Read more

Mulayam Singh Yadav calls SP-BSP alliance ‘inappropriate’, hits out at Akhilesh Yadav for delaying ticket distribution

Posted By: Adminon: February 21, 2019No Comments

In what is being perceived as an embarrassment for Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, Akhilesh’s father and veteran SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday said that the alli... Read more

Congress: PM Modi continued shooting for documentary for his propaganda and publicity after Pulwama attack

Posted By: Adminon: February 21, 2019No Comments

The Congress also accused BJP president Amit Shah of “politicisation of terrorism” in his speech in Assam following the Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF jawans died Prime Minister Nare... Read more

PM, ministers and Governor let down India and Indians

Posted By: Adminon: February 21, 2019No Comments

India’s strength is in the unity of its people. Dividing people may yield short-term political dividends but it will weaken our nation. And that no well-meaning government should tolerate an... Read more

Shiv Sena to contest 23 seats, BJP 25 in Lok Sabha polls; 50:50 for Assembly

Posted By: Adminon: February 19, 2019No Comments

Ending weeks of speculation and tottering on the brink, the ruling NDA constituents – Shiv Sena and BJP- finally sealed a pact for the ensuing 2019 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections End... Read more