File:Cucuta-blockade.jpg

Summary

 * Source:
 * Foto: EDINSON ESTUPINAN/AFP/Getty Images
 * Venezuela: Troops block border bridge to stop aid from Colombia - Irish Times, February 6, 2019
 * Venezuelan troops barricade bridge to prevent US aid and what Maduro claims is a prelude to invasion - The Telegraph, February 6, 2019
 * https://twitter.com/QuicoToro/status/1093340256328470528


 * Version 1
 * Secretary Pompeo @SecPompeo on Twitter, February 6, 2019
 * ''The Venezuelan people desperately need humanitarian aid. The U.S. & other countries are trying to help, but #Venezuela’s military under Maduro's orders is blocking aid with trucks and shipping tankers. The Maduro regime must LET THE AID REACH THE STARVING PEOPLE. #EstamosUnidosVE
 * https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuela-military-sets-up-blockade-on-bridge-to-stop-aid-from-colombia


 * Fake news?
 * The Bogus Bolivarian Blockade - McResistor, February 8, 2019
 * Venezuela: International Mediation Efforts Splinter as Tensions Build over Humanitarian Aid - Ricardo Vaz, Venezuelanalysis, February 7, 2019
 * A picture circulated on social media and mainstream outlets on Wednesday purported to show containers blocking the Tienditas bridge, which connects border towns Cucuta in Colombia and Urena in Venezuela. Several US officials reacted, with Secretary Pompeo calling on Maduro to “let aid reach starving people.” However, National Constituent Assembly President Diosdado Cabello clarified in his TV program that the bridge has been closed since 2016. At the time of writing, the Simon Bolivar and Francisco de Paula Santander bridges continue open as normal, while reports emerged on Thursday that aid shipments had started to arrive in Cucuta.


 * ¡No Pasarán! - Modaira Rubio (Caracas), Junge Welt, February 8, 2019 (German)
 * The bridge was build from 2013-2016 but was never put into use, other then by smugglers at night. The Colombian TV-Channel NTN 24 had reported that aid should be transported over this bridge, which seems to be the basis for the fake news of the "blockade". (summary by CE (talk) 17:48, 8 February 2019 (UTC))