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New York Times: Οπαδοί του Γκουαϊδό έκαψαν το φορτηγό με την
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από πολλά διεθνή και εγχώρια ΜΜΕ «ανάποδα», δηλαδή να καταλογίζουν στον
Μαδούρο κάτι για το οποίο έχει ευθύνη ο Γκουαϊδό ή οι οπαδοί του. Μιλάμε
για τον Γκουαϊδό, τον δοτό των ΗΠΑ που αυτοανακηρύχθηκε πρόεδρος της
χώρας και στη συνέχεια τον αναγνώρισαν ΗΠΑ, Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, χώρες στη
Λατινική Αμερική και αλλού.
Για να στηθούν οι συνθήκες για ένα πραξικόπημα – αυτό προσπαθούν να
κάνουν οι ΗΠΑ στη Βενεζουέλα – χρειάζονται και οι ανάλογες εικόνες.
Έτσι, παρουσιάστηκε πως οι δυνάμεις ασφαλείας του Μαδούρο, στα σύνορα
της Βενεζουέλας με την Κολομβία, έκαψαν ένα φορτηγό ανθρωπιστικής
βοήθειας. Την εκδοχή αυτή έσπευσε να «επιβεβαιώσουν» και αρκετοί υψηλοί
αξιωματούχοι των ΗΠΑ (στο βίντεο παρακάτω θα τους δείτε).
Τον ισχυρισμό αυτό ανατρέπουν σήμερα οι New York Times με αναλυτικό
δημοσίευμα και αποκαλυπτικό βίντεο που παρουσιάζουν: Τη φωτιά στο
φορτηγό με την ανθρωπιστική βοήθεια έβαλαν οι οπαδοί του Γκουαϊδό.
Ακολουθεί το βίντεο. Το δημοσίευμα των New York Times εδώ:
nytimes.com
Footage Contradicts U.S. Claim That Nicolás Maduro Burned Aid Convoy
9-11 λεπτά
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Top U.S. officials have said Nicolás Maduro’s regime burned an aid
convoy last month. But TV footage contradicts that claim and shows how
this unverified information spread across Twitter and
television.CreditCreditNatasha Vásquez/Afp
CÚCUTA, Colombia — The narrative seemed to fit Venezuela’s authoritarian
rule: Security forces, on the order of President Nicolás Maduro, had
torched a convoy of humanitarian aid as millions in his country were
suffering from illness and hunger.
Vice President Mike Pence wrote that “the tyrant in Caracas danced” as
his henchmen “burned food & medicine.” The State Department released a
video saying Mr. Maduro had ordered the trucks burned. And Venezuela’s
opposition held up the images of the burning aid, reproduced on dozens
of news sites and television screens throughout Latin America, as
evidence of Mr. Maduro’s cruelty.
But there is a problem: The opposition itself, not Mr. Maduro’s men,
appears to have set the cargo alight accidentally.
Unpublished footage obtained by The New York Times and previously
released tapes — including footage released by the Colombian government,
which has blamed Mr. Maduro for the fire — allowed for a reconstruction
of the incident. It suggests that a Molotov cocktail thrown by an
antigovernment protester was the most likely trigger for the blaze.
At one point, a homemade bomb made from a bottle is hurled toward the
police, who were blocking a bridge connecting Colombia and Venezuela to
prevent the aid trucks from getting through.
But the rag used to light the Molotov cocktail separates from the
bottle, flying toward the aid truck instead.
Half a minute later, that truck is in flames.
The same protester can be seen 20 minutes earlier, in a different video,
hitting another truck with a Molotov cocktail, without setting it on fire.
The burning of the aid last month has led to broad condemnation of the
Venezuelan government.
More than three million people have fled the country because of the
humanitarian crisis caused by Mr. Maduro’s mismanagement of the economy.
Political opponents who have remained in the country face repression by
his security forces, with many jailed, tortured or forced into exile.
Many demonstrators have been killed and even more injured during street
protests.
Many of Mr. Maduro’s critics claim that he ordered medication set on
fire during the border standoff — even though many of his people have
died of medicine shortages in hospitals.
Yet the claim about a shipment of medicine, too, appears to be
unsubstantiated, according to videos and interviews.
The United States Agency for International Development, the principal
supplier of the aid at the bridge, did not list medicine among its
donations. A top opposition official on the bridge that day told The
Times that the burned shipment contained medical supplies like face
masks and gloves, but not medicine. And video clips reviewed by The
Times show some of the boxes contained hygiene kits, which the Americans
identified as containing supplies like soap and toothpaste.
Yet the claim that Mr. Maduro burned medicine has persisted.
“Maduro has lied about the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, he
contracts criminals to burn food and medicine intended for the
Venezuelan people,” wrote John R. Bolton, President Trump’s national
security adviser, in a message posted on Twitter on March 2.
After being contacted by The Times about these claims, American
officials released a statement describing how the fire began more
cautiously.
“Eyewitness accounts indicate that the fire started when Maduro’s forces
violently blocked the entry of humanitarian assistance,” the statement
said. It did not specify that Mr. Maduro’s forces lit the fire.
American officials also noted that, whatever the circumstances, they
held Mr. Maduro responsible because he blocked the aid trucks that day,
punishing Venezuelans in need.
“Maduro is responsible for creating the conditions for violence,” said
Garrett Marquis, a spokesman for the National Security Council. “His
thugs denied the entry of tons of food and medicine, while thousands of
courageous volunteers sought to safeguard and deliver aid to Venezuelan
families.”
The aid shipment created a showdown unlike any on the border between
Colombia and Venezuela in years.
On Feb. 23, Venezuela’s opposition planned to pierce a military blockade
by Mr. Maduro, hoping that the president’s security forces would break
with him rather than stop much-needed aid. They argued that a cascade of
defections in the military would follow, eventually toppling the government.
Instead, Mr. Maduro’s security forces, along with government-aligned
gangs, attacked protesters, who came armed with rocks and Molotov
cocktails. One of the aid trucks burned in the melee, igniting the
bitter war of words over who was responsible.
Mr. Maduro’s government has also made unsubstantiated claims, starting
with its longstanding insistence that there are no food shortages in
Venezuela.
It also claimed that the aid shipment contained expired supplies or
American weapons.
But one claim that appears to be backed up by video footage is that the
protesters started the fire.
“They tried a false flag operation, that supposedly the people of
Venezuela had burned a truck carrying rotten food — no, no, no — it was
they themselves, it was the criminals of Iván Duque,” Mr. Maduro told a
crowd, referring to Colombia’s president.
The day of the convoy, Colombia’s government quickly became a chief
booster of the theory that Mr. Maduro had been behind the fire. Vice
President Marta Lucía Ramírez posted a picture of what she said was “one
of the trucks incinerated by gangs by order of Maduro.”
After the truck was destroyed, the Colombian government sent CCTV
footage from the bridge to American officials and Colombian journalists,
according to officials and journalists who received them.
The footage was edited to show circles around Venezuelan security forces
throwing tear gas canisters, which explode on impact, toward the aid
convoy. Subsequent images show the truck erupting into smoke, implying
that it was the Venezuelan officials who were responsible.
But the footage distributed by the Colombian government removes the
13-minute period before the fire begins. Officials from Mr. Duque’s
office did not release the full video after repeated requests from The
Times.
Protesters who threw Molotov cocktails from the bridge insisted that Mr.
Maduro’s forces, not their homemade bombs, set the fire.
Junior José Quevedo, 23, said he had arrived at 7 a.m. that day and
tried to talk policemen into allowing the aid to pass. “But then another
armed group came of colectivos,” he said, referring to
government-aligned gangs.
Adalberto Rondón, another bomb thrower on the bridge that day, said it
was national guardsmen who lit the fire.
The same account was widely picked up that day by American officials.
“Each of the trucks burned by Maduro carried 20 tons of food and
medicine,” Senator Marco Rubio wrote on Twitter, repeating a claim
posted by a Colombian news network that was on the scene. “This is a
crime and if international law means anything he must pay a high price
for this.”
Contacted by The Times about the footage Saturday, a spokesman for Mr.
Rubio did not address who burned the trucks, saying in a statement that
“Maduro bears full responsibility for the destruction of humanitarian aid.”
Juan Guaidó, the leader of Venezuela’s opposition, has fervently
maintained that the aid contained medicine and that it was burned by Mr.
Maduro as well.
When contacted by The Times on Thursday about possible contradictory
information on what the truck contained, Edward Rodríguez, a spokesman
for Mr. Guaidó, said he “didn’t have the exact information” and referred
questions to Gaby Arellano, a lawmaker in charge of the aid distribution.
Ms. Arellano could not be reached for comment this past week. But when
interviewed by The Times on the bridge shortly after the truck burned on
Feb. 23, Ms. Arellano said the truck was not carrying any medicine.
“There were face masks, syringes, gloves, the things that you use in an
operating room,” she said.
Ms. Arellano also said Mr. Maduro’s security forces had burned the
shipment, with his forces throwing tear gas canisters that exploded on
the vehicle.
“Tear gas bombs, when they fall they throw out a spark,” she said.
“Since there were boxes, when the first one fell, it set everything on
fire.”
Asked if it had been done on purpose, she said: “There couldn’t be any
other reason, could there? The world is here, it was all recorded live
by the media. There’s even videos where you can see it all happening.”
Nicholas Casey reported from Cúcuta, and Christoph Koettl and Deborah
Acosta from New York. Albinson Linares contributed reporting from
Cúcuta, and Anjali Singhvi from New York.
A version of this article appears in print on March 11, 2019, on Page A1
of the New York edition with the headline: Maduro Burned Aid? Footage
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