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Venezuela crisis: US planes carrying aid arrive in Colombia
BBC ^ | February 16 | Staff

Posted on 02/17/2019 12:45:48 AM PST by PghBaldy

US military planes have been delivering humanitarian aid for Venezuela in the Colombian border town of Cucuta.

The aid is being stockpiled at the request of the Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, who declared himself interim president last month.

President Nicolás Maduro has alleged that the aid is part of a US plot to disguise an invasion into Venezuela.

Mr Guaidó said some 600,000 Venezuelan volunteers would carry the aid across the border on 23 February.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201902; 20190223; aid; columbia; cucuta; guaido; maduro; socialism; venezuela; volunteers
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Hopefully all goes well in this mission. Not sure why they are waiting almost a week to carry the aid though?
1 posted on 02/17/2019 12:45:48 AM PST by PghBaldy
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To: PghBaldy

I bet the US military has been in Columbia for weeks, but the story is just now getting out.


2 posted on 02/17/2019 12:57:14 AM PST by Tai_Chung
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To: PghBaldy

How are Vets doing?


3 posted on 02/17/2019 1:01:46 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Vets?


4 posted on 02/17/2019 1:06:19 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

Yes, why are we spending all kinds of money helping other countries when we have thousands of Vets that are homeless and sick?


5 posted on 02/17/2019 1:08:05 AM PST by EEGator
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To: PghBaldy

Sounds like they are doing it the right way, coordinating with Brazil, the OAS, etc., and only bringing it to the border.


6 posted on 02/17/2019 1:29:02 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: EEGator

It shouldn’t be either/or. This is humanitarian plus straightening out our back yard, which will also save us in the long run.

No reason we can’t do both. And Trump of course has been working hard on straightening out the healthcare side. We have lots of options for the homeless that some homeless vets are passing up on. (And we need an equal standard of care for the non-vet homeless, too.) There are limits as to what we can do there other than enforce laws against vagrancy, etc.


7 posted on 02/17/2019 1:32:48 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: PghBaldy

Cucuta.....my old stomping grounds

The real back doors to Venezuela are La Guajira and Valledupar

Colombia could conquer Venezuela these days and recreate GranColombia

I think they’d need Ecuador and a chunk of Peru to complete it

Colombians are a tough room


8 posted on 02/17/2019 1:45:14 AM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: EEGator

Oh OK. Thanks for clarification. We should take good care of our vets no matter what else we are doing.


9 posted on 02/17/2019 1:55:16 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: EEGator

Cant let Russia or China become dominant...


10 posted on 02/17/2019 2:23:01 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: PghBaldy

Funny how we have here enemies that want to change our evil old white mans system to a better utopian system like Venezuela, north Korea, Muslim or any of the African sh##hole but we are the first to step up and feed the nation that has been plagued by dictators who push the same


11 posted on 02/17/2019 3:00:38 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: EEGator

Because if there is no help, desperate people will move north by the thousands, disrupting everything on the way.


12 posted on 02/17/2019 3:15:04 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: PghBaldy

Bomb them with food. And money to the right people if needed.


13 posted on 02/17/2019 3:26:19 AM PST by McGruff
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” There are limits as to what we can do there other than enforce laws against vagrancy, etc.”

I am just outside Tallahassee which has a homeless shelter that has been the source of many, sometimes most, of the day’s arrests. Having witnessed some of this, as you can’t miss them, they are on every street in my side of town, I can attest to some of the problems. Many display obvious signs of being drunk or high. A large percentage are young to early middle age. Some of the cardboard signs read something like, “Homeless Vet.”

A friend living in an apartment in a formerly safe neighborhood near TCC campus, and close to the new shelter, walked out his door to discover the black shop owner sharing his parking lot had been stabbed to death by a homeless black. The attacker was normally a panhandler living in the homeless shelter. My friend will be moving when his lease is up as he has a couple of his kids living with him and the neighborhood is now too dangerous for them.
(Thank you city planners who moved the shelter from downtown where businesses complained to adjacent to a college campus and housing; where people don’t vote.)

Whatever the problems are that the homeless are subject to, they aren’t the kind that would be resolved by just finding them a home and giving them food. That would be easy. Addition and mental issues are hard to resolve. And like the old joke, how many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb? One. But the lightbulb has to want to change.


14 posted on 02/17/2019 3:37:36 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Gen.Blather

Addition=Addiction What a difference a c makes.


15 posted on 02/17/2019 3:41:53 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: PghBaldy

“..President Nicolás Maduro has alleged that the aid is part of a US plot to disguise an invasion into Venezuela.”

Why exactly are we helping these a**holes??


16 posted on 02/17/2019 3:51:39 AM PST by FLvoter
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To: ronnie raygun

Those dictators are just not the right people to carry out the Revolution ... we feed the people there because the next guy will make socialism work, see?


17 posted on 02/17/2019 4:12:52 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Gen.Blather

You speak a sad truth there. We of course went overboard in “deinstitutionalizing” decades ago.

That is part of why actual law enforcement is sometimes the best we can do for them—and their potential, ongoing victims.


18 posted on 02/17/2019 4:17:19 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: PghBaldy
Guaidó invoked Venezuela’s constitutional crisis provisions—Articles 233, 333, and 350—which empower the president of the National Assembly to assume interim presidency of the country to restore the democratic order. He has already begun this process. Guaidó has offered amnesty to any military officers who disobey the dictatorship and has indicated he would do the same for Maduro if he were to allow free and fair elections.

Link to the article

19 posted on 02/17/2019 4:35:11 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: wardaddy

And here just yesterday, I spent time reading about Javier Reinoso and his attempt to save and care for a bunch of cats. He even moved to someplace that has more room.

One of the most interesting factoids he mentioned was that a 6 oz tin of sardines, hard to come by, rises by a factor of 3 to 5 times.

https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/cat-sanctuary-venezuela

“A whole month of salary or pension can only buy 7 small 6 oz. cans of sardines over here at the moment.”

Also

https://twitter.com/reinosoj2/status/1092088775398883328https://twitter.com/reinosoj2/status/1092824898056212481


20 posted on 02/17/2019 4:36:30 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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