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CÚCUTA, Colombia The narrative seemed to fit Venezuelas authoritarian rule: Security forces, on the order of President Nicolás Maduro, had torched a convoy of humanitarian aid as millions in his country were suffering from illness and hunger.
Vice President Mike Pence wrote that the tyrant in Caracas danced as his henchmen burned food & medicine. The State Department released a video saying Mr. Maduro had ordered the trucks burned. And Venezuelas opposition held up the images of the burning aid, reproduced on dozens of news sites and television screens throughout Latin America, as evidence of Mr. Maduros cruelty.
But there is a problem: The opposition itself, not Mr. Maduros men, appears to have set the cargo alight accidentally.
Unpublished footage obtained by The New York Times and previously released tapes including footage released by the Colombian government, which has blamed Mr. Maduro for the fire allowed for a reconstruction of the incident. It suggests that a Molotov cocktail thrown by an antigovernment protester was the most likely trigger for the blaze.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/americas/venezuela-aid-fire-video.html
I remember Colombian news sources posted here & elsewhere also claimed it was likely an anti government protestor that started the blaze.
nycbos
(6,038 posts)There are plenty of horrible factual things about Maduro to mention with out making things up. He suspended his democratically elected legislator when he didn't like the election results. He jails his political opponents. Only this administration would find away to bring international symptathy to this tin pot autocrat.
malaise
(269,164 posts)Overthrow, loot, plunder, steal resources, create civil war and then leave the mess for the locals.
I'm sick of this shit.
Just imagine if the Scandinavians got up and declared that Hillary Clinton was indeed the victor in the 2016 elections and they recognize her as President.
Ask M$Greedia for a response as most of them spread the lies re Venezuela.