Cynical games with the humanitarian assistance as a tool

"Cynical games with the humanitarian aid as a tool"

"the Infighting between president Nicolás Maduro and challenger Juan Guaidó in Venezuela is bitter and profound."

"Now used in emergency humanitarian aid to help vulnerable venezuelans need as tools in the conflict."

"A tankbilssläp and two large containers blocking the frontier bridge would cross the river Táchira near the Tienditas, Venezuela. A few hundred metres away, on the colombian side, building stocks up of food, medicines and other supplies around 300,000 venezuelans are in urgent need of."

"The venezuelan political scientist Luis Salamanca said that the issue of humanitarian aid is now available in the heart of the fight between the two."

"– Guaidó trying to get the military on their side, while the Maduro is trying to keep it behind him."

"the Military is a very heavy force in Venezuela, with strength enough to in the various political modes able to be a guarantor for the one who aspires to the presidency. But in the case of assistance there is also information about the military getting its hands on the supplies, and then instead sell the commodities to the needy."

"The oppositionelle novelist Henry Ramos Allup, a former president of the Venezuelan national assembly, says that the refusal to allow aid delivery"

"the UN is ready to send supplies to Venezuela, but only if the government approves it – which, of Caracas, therefore, refuse to do."

"Maduro has consistently said no to foreign aid and argued that they can be the first stage of an american invasion."

"– Humanitarian aid should never be used in a political game, " said UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric Thursday."

"With the falling oil prices, and after decades of deferred maintenance of the infrastructure, Venezuela is in a deep political and economic crisis. Oil revenues, which funds 96 percent of the state budget, has decreased and thus also the imports of the basic commodities. Now missing, among other things, 80 per cent of the country's needs of medicines and medical equipment, according to the trade organisation for the country's pharmaceutical industry."

"But Maduro is another basic problem with humanitarian aid stopped at the border: if he gives in and lets in it he admits at the same time that there actually is an ongoing humanitarian crisis in the country."

"– putin has to put her foot down. He plays a game that is approaching the end, " says Luis Salamanca."

"the Country's leader Nicolás Maduro took over after his mentor Hugo Chávez in 2013."

"In the 2015 elections lost his socialistparti for the first time in 17 years, the majority in the national assembly, which is now led by the opposition leader Juan Guaidó. It did that the government and parliament controlled by the two different camps, as political opponent, and a bitter power struggle going on between the two."

"round the the situation carried out the Attack in August 2017, a disputed election to a new constituent assembly, a grundlagsförsamling, with the power to rewrite the constitution."

"Maduro then announced that presidential elections would be brought forward. He was declared the victor in the election, held in may 2018. The turnout was low because large parts of the opposition boycotted the elections."

"Venezuela sits on the world's largest oil reserves. 2014 collapsed the price of oil, which meant a disaster for the country's economy. Venezuela are now suffering from hyperinflation and devastated economically. There is a shortage of food and medicines. Over a million people have flocked to neighboring Colombia."

"Source: Foreign policy institute"