The political and economic crisis in Venezuela has led to high levels of poverty, mass exodus and lack of food and medicines.
After several protests against president Nicolás Maduro has more than 40 people have been killed and 850 people have been arrested, including 77 children, in a single week. It reports The Guardian.
Around three million people have fled from the country.
– We do not have medicines or equipment we need at the hospital. The children here die. It is not food or drugs here, ” said Daniel Pena, who is a doctor in a hospital in the capital, Caracas, during a protest outside the hospital.
Channel 4 journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy writes on Twitter about a woman who must have been told by the doctors that the only option she had to save his own children, was to take it out of the country.
The doctors at the children’s hospital in Caracas told here the only way here baby was going to survive was to get it out of Venezuela. They took the illegal smugglers tracks together #UnreportedWorld #Venezuela #Colombia #NewSeriesThisFridayAt730 pic.twitter.com/VRwyVsQzL0
— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) 30. October 2018
Got even a president
the Situation in Venezuela came to a head when the leader of the national assembly, Juan Guaidó, last week appointed himself as president.
Thursday reputable EUROPEAN parliament Guaidó as acting president of Venezuela.
We live in a dictatorship, that it must be exercised pressure on. Increasingly more people are being killed. There is no doubt that the regime is completely corrupt. Maduro is a dictator, has Guaidó previously stated to the newspaper Bild.
BEEN IN the MEETINGS: Juan Guaidó writes in a post in the New York Times that he has had secret meetings with the military. Photo: Juan Barreto / AFP Show more Secret meetings
military forces have played an important role for that Nicolás Maduro has managed to hold on to power, writes the BBC.
In a post in The New York Times reveals, however, Guaidó that he has had secret meetings with members of the armed forces and the security forces in the country.
That the military withdraws its support for Maduro is crucial to enable a change of government, and the majority of those who are serving in the armed forces agree that the pain the country is now exposed to is intolerable, type Guaidó.
He claims that 84 per cent of the country’s population want to get rid of Maduro as president. Guaidó ask further about the support from all venezuelanere, institutions and individuals worldwide, to get rid of the Maduro regime in a bloodless manner as possible.
Hard out against the Maduro
In addition to the fact that the united STATES has recognized Guaidó as president, they also stated that they will impose sanctions against the state oil company and freeze the billions of the country’s funds.
Donald Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton has advised finanspersoner to go into trading on gold, oil or other venezuelan goods and says that these are stolen from the venezuelan people, “Maduro-mafia”.
WILL NOT GO BY: There are great protests against Maduro in Venezuela. The president refuses to go off. Photo: Ariana Cubillos / AP Show more
In a Twitter message on Thursday, writing Bolton that he wants Maduro and his advisors a long and quiet pensjonisttilsværelse on a beach far away from Venezuela.
– They should leverage the president Guaidós amnesty and go further. The sooner, the better, writes Bolton.
I wish Nicolas Maduro and his top advisors a long, quiet retirement, living on a nice beach somewhere far from Venezuela. They should take advantage of President Guaido’s amnesty and move on. The sooner the better.
— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) 31. January 2019
– No one gives the us an ultimatum
the EU has previously threatened more action against Venezuela if Maduro did not hold new presidential elections within Saturday. It writes the North.
This has been ridiculed by members of the Maduros administration. Maduro has faced CNN stated that he is the victim of an american conspiracy.
– No one gives us an ultimatum. All of Europe prostrate themselves to Donald Trump, ” says Maduro.
Russia, China, Turkey and regional allies such as Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico are on his side in the conflict.
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