Crisis deepens in Venezuela as opposition call on Maduro to allow humanitarian aid into the country

The political crisis in Venezuela is deepening by the day with the opposition calling on embattled President Nicolas Maduro to allow humanitarian aid into the country.

According to US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido who was speaking at a rally in Caracas, aid would enter Venezuela on February 23, and he also asked the military to let it in.

Reports say opposition supporters rallied nationwide in a country where food and medicine shortages are rife but Maduro is accusing the US of ‘distorting the situation to justify intervention’.

Opposition supporters at the rally said they were eager to see a change in the country.

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“It can not be that since I was born the only thing I remember is misery, pain, hunger and relatives leaving the country,” Sol Betancourt, a 24-year-old student told Al Jazeera.

Reacting to calls to allow aid into the country, Maduro denounced the move saying it is an attempt by the US to undermine and overthrow his government.

“The Ku Klux Klan governing the White House today wants to take possession of Venezuela,” Maduro said in an interview with the BBC.

“Venezuela is not a country of famine. In the West, Venezuela’s situation is distorted to justify any sort of intervention,” he said.Venezuela

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