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https://progressive.org/dispatches/us-goal-to-asphyxiate-venezuela-vivanco-190423/

Alfred de Zayas argues that Caracas has grounds to reject offers of “aid” coming from Donald Trump’s White House, given the precedent of U.S. humanitarian aid being used as a trojan horse.

The delivery of some twenty-four tonsof medical supplies to Venezuela’s Maiquetia Airport on April 16 received little fanfare, in marked contrast to a debacle that occurred just weeks before.

That previous attempt to send aid to the increasingly desperate country came a day after British billionaire Richard Bransonhelda multi-million dollar concert, “Venezuela Aid Alive,” in the Colombian border town of Cucuta. Venezuela’s opposition in Bogota attempted to force a USAID shipment of food and other aid through Venezuela’s border.

The dramatic scenes of burning trucks and cargo made international headlines, with media and U.S. leaders alikeblamingVenezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. U.S. National Security Advisor John Boltonwarnedvia Twitter…