Yahoo News
BLOOMBERG, by Patricia Laya — February 21, 2019
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(Bloomberg) — Venezuelan troops have begun disobeying orders from Nicolas Maduro’s top officers and are unlikely to heed calls to crack down on a humanitarian-aid caravan scheduled to enter the country this weekend, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio said.
“Saturday’s a day when we’re going to find a lot about the Maduro regime,” Rubio, who’s been helping set U.S. policy toward Venezuela, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. “I have reason to believe that rank-and-file military are not going to violently suppress aid workers.”
Juan Guaido, the National Assembly leader battling Maduro as legitimate head of the country, has been pushing aggressively for soldiers and generals alike to recognize him as president, something the U.S. and more than 30 other countries have done. While only one general and two colonels — among thousands of top officers — have broken ranks in the past weeks, Rubio says Maduro’s grip is loosening.
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The article can be viewed at:
https://news.yahoo.com/maduro-apos-soldiers-begun-disobeying-003938041.html
One dead and 12 injured as Venezuelan troops open fire on civilians trying to keep Brazilian border open for aid – a day after Guaido’s trucks rammed through roadblocks
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— Venezuelan troops ‘opened fire’ after arriving at a village where civilians were trying to keep the border open
— Woman named as Zorayda Rodriguez, 42, was killed and 12 were injured, four seriously, it has been reported
— Video also shows a clash between President Nicolas Maduro’s troops and backers of his rival Juan Guaido
— Security forces shown standing in path of trucks which are believed to have been on their way to the border
— Maduro is trying to block US aid from entering Venezuela but Guaido is planning to bring it in on Saturday
— Rival pop concerts set to take place at either end of a blockaded border bridge today as tensions mount
— Russia accused the US of using aid deliveries as a ploy to carry out military action against Maduro’s
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Daily Mail
by Julian Robinson for MailOnline and AFP
February 22, 2019
View the complete article at:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6732927/Guaidos-trucks-RAM-roadblocks-Venezuelan-border.html
Many Venezuelan Soldiers Wavering and Some Are Deserting
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/south-america/item/31599-many-venezuelan-soldiers-wavering-and-some-are-deserting