Maduro regime’s battle with the opposition about the relief shipments to Venezuela demanded Saturday four lives, while 24 injured, reports the Washington Post.

While the opposition is trying to get aid into the country, fighting president Nicolás Maduro to keep it there, because he considers it utidig interference from the outside world.

The four were killed in Santa Elena de Guairen on the Venezuelan border to Brazil, writes the newspaper, with reference to the humanitarian juristorganisasjonen Foro Penal, which informs to have people on-site.

According to the venezuelan organization, they died after that irregular regjeringsvennlige groups – so-called “colectivos” – had opened fire.

We have been told that the “colectivos” fired at the people on the border and the situation is serious, ” says Foro Penals director Alfredo Romero.

Expel the diplomats

Santa Elena de Guairen is only one of several grensebyer where there were clashes today, Saturday, between people who are trying to get aid into the country and the soldiers and police who fought to stop them.

fighting is a part of the power struggle between president Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who recently declared himself as the interim president with support from the national assembly.

RUN FOR LIFE: Opposisjonstilhengere runs during a clash with The he the national guard to Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in the city of Ureña close to Colombia. Photo: NTB Scanpix/AP/Rodrigo Abd Show more

the Crisis came to a head in the morning, when Venezuelan strong leftist president Nicolás Maduro announced a “total and temporary suspension of the bridges on the border to Colombia.”

He did not with it.

During a demonstration in Caracas on Saturday, to support for his regime, he gave colombia’s diplomats 24 hours to leave Venezuela.

I have decided to cancel all political and diplomatic relations with the fascist government of Colombia, he said, according to NTB to thousands of cheering supporters dressed in red.

Violent clashes

Photos taken today in the southwestern city of Ureña on the border with Colombia shows the barrings made by burning tires and protesters who throw rocks and run for their lives.

SELECTED SUPPORT: President Nicolás Maduro during a støttedemonstrasjon for his own control in the Venezuelan capital Caracas on Saturday. Photo: NTB Scanpix/Yuri Cortez/AFP Show more

One of them shows according to the photo caption from the news agency Associated Press steinkastende protesters in clashes with Venezuelan nasjonalgarde, who fired tear gas at residents who tried to open a grensebru.

On the Colombia side of the border marked the Colombian president Iván Duque Saturday its open support to the Venezuelan opposition, in grensebyen Cúcuta.

Together with the opposition leader Juan Guaidó he was in the city to help send humanitarian supplies across the border.

Guaidó was in Cúcuta, in spite of a utreiseforbud from Maduro, writes NTB.

GOT the NEIGHBOUR-SUPPORT: Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó got the support of Chile’s president Sebastian Pinera and colombia’s president Iván Duque in the town of Cúcuta on the colombian side of the border today. Photo: NTB Scanpix/Raul Arboleda/AFP Show more

When the first four trucks took across the bridge to Colombia, were three of them set ablaze by the venezuelan soldiers, writes NTB. It got Guaidó-followers to storm to the rescue of the supplies out.

– 13 deserted

With a number of clashes in the course of Saturday, see the crisis to taper around the contested hjelpesendingene as opposisjonens leader Juan Guaidó have made a fanesak to get into the distressed country.

President Nicolás Maduro has said a blank no to the help, which he considers for a utidig interference in Venezuelan internal affairs.

Saturday looks Guaidó to have collected at least one victory.

at Least 13 members of the Venezuelan security forces have deserted in the course of the day, says colombia’s immigration authorities, according to the BBC.

“They are not deserters, the police and enlisted men in the armed forces that should decide to join our struggle. They have decided to place themselves on the side of the People and the Constitution!”, type Guaidó on twitter Saturday.

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According to the Guaidó, who recently declared himself as the interim president, is a shift in power in Venezuela is now “impossible to stop”.

Buoys not of

He gets a tough job to convince president Nicolás Maduro, who in 2013 took over after the charismatic Hugo Chavez, just about like that.

Despite support for Guaidó as Venezuela’s president from countries such as Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada and not least the united STATES, shows Maduro no signs of bending.

Saturday was one of his twittermeldinger as follows, after both sides have hosted concerts for his views:

“the Venezuelan patriotic people sent a clear message from the concert for peace and life on the border in Tachira of PEACE WILL WIN OUT. We support the CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT!”

Even if Maduro as president since 2013 has led the oil-rich Venezuela into a bottomless economic, political and social crisis, shows the images that came with the tweet that he can still muster the major people.

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