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Related: About this forumTwo dead after Venezuelan soldiers open fire on opposition supporters
Source: Washington Post
Two dead after Venezuelan soldiers open fire on opposition supporters
By Anthony Faiola, Rachelle Krygier and Mariana Zuñiga February 22 at 1:30 PM
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela Venezuelan soldiers opened fire on a group of civilians attempting to keep open a segment of the southern border with Brazil for deliveries of humanitarian aid, causing multiple injuries and the first fatalities of a massive opposition operation meant to deliver international relief to this devastated South American country, according to eyewitnesses and community leaders.
At 6:30 a.m. on Friday, a military convoy approached a checkpoint set up by an indigenous community in the southern village of Kumarakapay, on the main artery linking Venezuela to Brazil. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday ordered the closure of Venezuelas border with Brazil.
When the opposition supporters sought to block the military vehicles by standing in front of them, soldiers began firing assault rifles. At least two people were killed and a dozen wounded, at least three of them seriously. The dead were named as a woman, Zorayda Rodriguez, 42, and a man, Rolando Garcia.
The Trump administration, which opposes Maduro, promptly denounced the shooting. The United States condemns the killings, attacks, and the hundreds of arbitrary detentions that have taken place in Venezuela, a State Department spokesman said. We stand with the victims families in demanding justice and accountability. (Vice President Pence, who is one of the administrations most forceful Maduro critics, is scheduled to be in Colombia on Monday for a scheduled meeting of the Lima Group a consortium of Latin American countries, plus Canada, that have called for Maduros ouster.)
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By Anthony Faiola, Rachelle Krygier and Mariana Zuñiga February 22 at 1:30 PM
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela Venezuelan soldiers opened fire on a group of civilians attempting to keep open a segment of the southern border with Brazil for deliveries of humanitarian aid, causing multiple injuries and the first fatalities of a massive opposition operation meant to deliver international relief to this devastated South American country, according to eyewitnesses and community leaders.
At 6:30 a.m. on Friday, a military convoy approached a checkpoint set up by an indigenous community in the southern village of Kumarakapay, on the main artery linking Venezuela to Brazil. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday ordered the closure of Venezuelas border with Brazil.
When the opposition supporters sought to block the military vehicles by standing in front of them, soldiers began firing assault rifles. At least two people were killed and a dozen wounded, at least three of them seriously. The dead were named as a woman, Zorayda Rodriguez, 42, and a man, Rolando Garcia.
The Trump administration, which opposes Maduro, promptly denounced the shooting. The United States condemns the killings, attacks, and the hundreds of arbitrary detentions that have taken place in Venezuela, a State Department spokesman said. We stand with the victims families in demanding justice and accountability. (Vice President Pence, who is one of the administrations most forceful Maduro critics, is scheduled to be in Colombia on Monday for a scheduled meeting of the Lima Group a consortium of Latin American countries, plus Canada, that have called for Maduros ouster.)
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/one-dead-multiple-injured-after-venezuelan-national-guard-opens-fire-on-opposition-supporters/2019/02/22/09d60f1a-3518-11e9-8375-e3dcf6b68558_story.html
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Two dead after Venezuelan soldiers open fire on opposition supporters (Original Post)
Eugene
Feb 2019
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Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)1. Preventing people from starving by shooting them nt
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)2. Chavista social policy, 2.0
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)3. Those Chavistas are always thinking outside the box!
The good news for the Chavistas is that with everyone starving, they don't need to spend any more money on imported insulin!
Wins everywhere you look in ChavismoLand!