US Vice President meets Guaido in Bogota

washington - US Vice President Mike Pence plans to meet opposition leader Juan Guaido of Venezuela in Bogota on Monday. He will do that at a meeting of the Lima Group, the...

America, through Vice President Mike Pence, sharply condemned the violence against the civilian population in Venezuela. Several countries want to send the country relief goods. The Venezuelan ruler President Nicolás Maduro does not want to know anything about this help. He sees it as a propaganda position of the opposition. There is famine in oil-rich Venezuela and there is a lack of everything. Maduro's hated regime survives because of the involvement of high military personnel in the trading of mineral resources, in the case of shimping at the official exchange rate of the almost worthless money and in international cocaine smuggling.