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Maduro Closes Venezuela’s Border With Brazil to Block Aid
NYTimes ^ | 1-21-2019 | Nick Casey

Posted on 02/21/2019 4:33:41 PM PST by tcrlaf

President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela ordered its border with Brazil closed Thursday, part of his escalating effort to stop opponents from sending humanitarian aid into his poverty-stricken country.

Juan Guaidó, the parliamentary opposition leader who declared himself president of Venezuela last month, has vowed to bring tons of aid donated by the United States and others into Venezuela on Saturday. Mr. Maduro, who has called Mr. Guaidó an American lackey, has vowed not to let the aid in.

The Brazil-border closure, announced on television, followed a Venezuelan government announcement on Wednesday that it would block air and sea travel between Venezuela and three Caribbean islands where the opposition said it wished to stage relief supplies.

“It’s better to prevent than to regret,” said Mr. Maduro.

The move comes 48 hours ahead of the deadline set by the opposition for Mr. Maduro to end his aid blockade or have it broken by force.

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


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What?? You mean it is OK to close the border of a Socialist country? Has anyone informed AOC and the Dem Socialists about this?
1 posted on 02/21/2019 4:33:42 PM PST by tcrlaf
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This devil is de-populating Venezuala, for his agenda 21 massahs.


2 posted on 02/21/2019 4:37:10 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: tcrlaf

Little a**h**e.


3 posted on 02/21/2019 4:42:17 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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If this to keep people IN, or to keep the Aid out?


4 posted on 02/21/2019 4:46:41 PM PST by rovenstinez
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“If this to keep people IN, or to keep the Aid out?”

Both.

L


5 posted on 02/21/2019 4:47:53 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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ok to close the border of a socialist country?
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Pelosi said:A wall is immoral. O’Rourke said a wall kills people. Maduro says “Forget it. The border is shut down.”

They should attach a rescue harness to him and pull him up by helicopter and carry him to the ocean and drop him off. He needs a nice refreshing swim after all his stress lately.

Then, Under New Management signs go up.


6 posted on 02/21/2019 4:48:29 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: tcrlaf

May he feel the pain that other socialist leaders in S. America have felt before they stopped breathing and destroying innocents in the miserable countries they ruled.


7 posted on 02/21/2019 4:52:58 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Stop Medieval Diseases With A Medieval Wall: Illegal migration is leading to a wave of outbreaks!!!!)
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Well Said!
DITTO!
8 posted on 02/21/2019 5:05:42 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: tcrlaf

From the Democrat perspective, protecting a socialist tyranny is moral.

Protecting our Republic is immoral.


9 posted on 02/21/2019 5:12:48 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Fiddlstix

Thanks.


10 posted on 02/21/2019 5:14:36 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Stop Medieval Diseases With A Medieval Wall: Illegal migration is leading to a wave of outbreaks!!!!)
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a Venezuelan government announcement on Wednesday that it would block air and sea travel between Venezuela and three Caribbean islands where the opposition said it wished to stage relief supplies.
. . . and Argentina Frankie says ? ? ?

11 posted on 02/21/2019 5:15:05 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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Communism, the last refuge of tyrants.

Take a good look lefties.

He’d rather his people starve, than his leadership be called to question.


12 posted on 02/21/2019 5:35:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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Jair Bolsonaro: Brazil’s firebrand leader dubbed the Trump of the Tropics

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45746013


13 posted on 02/21/2019 5:45:50 PM PST by McGruff
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He’s just protecting his socialist utopia...

What a slimeball. Go to any extreme he can think of to stop humanitarian aid to his country...Find his house and bomb it.


14 posted on 02/21/2019 5:48:54 PM PST by Paleo Pete (Stercus Accidit)
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Always ends the same with this sorry tired old socialist story


15 posted on 02/21/2019 5:51:09 PM PST by Phillyred
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I’m glad Socialism will work here. 😁
16 posted on 02/21/2019 6:02:39 PM PST by Tzimisce
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They oughta make him eat a JDAM.


17 posted on 02/21/2019 6:03:02 PM PST by HighSierra5
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I think his military should remove him.

The government has followed procedure as I understand it. He just refuses to go.

He’s no longer the official president.


18 posted on 02/21/2019 6:15:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: tcrlaf

The mental sickness of communism.


19 posted on 02/21/2019 6:18:59 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: DoughtyOne

Well then hopefully someone close to him puts him down easy. But then Sean Penn would be vewy vewy sad.


20 posted on 02/21/2019 6:45:25 PM PST by HighSierra5
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