Pressure on the Border Escalates: The Battle of Humanitarian Aid in Venezuela

Joshua Collins
5 min readFeb 19, 2019

Two dueling concerts complicate massive protests planned for Saturday Feb 23 in Cucuta, Colombia as tensions tighten over a possible forced entry of US aid into the stricken country.

The Simon Bolivar Bridge in Cucuta, Colombia (Photo credit: Joshua Collins)

Cucuta, Colombia- The deadline set by the United States and self-declared president Juan Guiado to deliver humanitarian aid into Venezuela is Saturday…

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Joshua Collins

A reporter on immigration and world affairs, based in Cucuta, Colombia. Bylines at Al Jazeera, Caracas Chronicles, New Humanitarian and more