The New York Times newspaper denied the information given on 23 February, when it was noted that Government of Nicolás Maduro supporters had burned one of the trucks with humanitarian aid that has bian entered Venezuela.
According to their report, the truck was blown product that a supporter of the self-proclaimed President encargado Juan Guaidó tried to release to Venezuelan police, but this drifted to help vehicle.
This is shown in a video of the same report. Thanks to the images delivered by the Colombian Government, was analyzed frame-by-frame the moment in which the fact originated: looks like a demonstrator who is among supporters of guided confronted with police from the back of trucks throw two molotov bombs: one that falls between the Venezuelan police who prevented the passage of machines and the second is diverted and falls on the burden of one of the trucks.
The day of the incident, the self-proclaimed President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, accused the Government of Maduro’s the fact: “the usurper regime relies on the most vile acts and attempts to burn the truck with humanitarian aid”.
United States also endorsed that version, and in the days following the fact reacted announcing sanctions: “we are sanctioning members of the mature security forces in response to his reprehensible violence, tragic deaths and inadmissible burning of” Food and medicine intended for the hungry and the sick Venezuelans”, said the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, in a statement.
The thesis of the Venezuelan opposition was reinforced by President Sebastián Piñera, who was the day of the incident in Cucuta, on the colombo-Venezuelan border, for what was the frustrated step of loading.
In fact, in a Twitter message, the Chilean President wrote that the regime of Maduro “showed his face + miserable and evil, Suppress and burn medicines and food, both the Venezuelan people need”.
However, from the minute one chavism and its allies questioned this version. So did for example the Communist Deputy Camila Vallejo, who on Twitter that “the Venezuelan right stars in the burning of his own ‘humanitarian aid’ to indict the Government of Venezuela,” attributing the version of burning by supporters of Mature to a “fake news”.
