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nitpicker

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Wed Apr 17, 2019, 05:20 AM Apr 2019

First Red Cross aid delivery arrives in Venezuela

https://www.dw.com/en/first-red-cross-aid-delivery-arrives-in-venezuela/a-48364244

First Red Cross aid delivery arrives in Venezuela

Date 16.04.2019

The Red Cross confirmed on Tuesday that a humanitarian shipment had arrived in Venezuela. The announcement marks the first shipment of aid to successfully make it into the crisis-ridden nation.
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Last week, acting president Nicolas Maduro reached an agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to allow in the aid into the country, after months opposing such a move, on the basis that it represented intervention efforts against his government.

Humanitarian aid has been the latest front in the power struggle between Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido, who has been recognized by more than 50 countries — including the US and Germany—, as Venezuela's interim president.
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First Red Cross aid delivery arrives in Venezuela (Original Post) nitpicker Apr 2019 OP
Could Maduro skim off the aid? mitch96 Apr 2019 #1
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