A Venezuelan woman awaiting humanitarian aid from the U.S. told a national outlet Thursday that she witnessed a friend die while waiting for dictator Nicolás Maduro to allow the aid to enter the country.
“Yesterday a friend died because he was paralyzed and had no medication to deal with it,” Dajelys López, an engineer carrying her newborn baby, told news service NTN24 from the border with Cúcuta, Colombia.
This week, the first of three convoys provided by the United States and other regional contributors arrived in Cúcuta ready to distribute aid to starved Venezuelans. The Venezuelan military, still controlled by Maduro, blocked the aid’s passage into the country, meaning only Venezuelans who had made it into Colombia could access it.
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