Venezuela’s aid standoff

The World

 About $60 million worth of food and medicine is still sitting in warehouses near a bridge on Venezuela’s border with Colombia. President Nicolás Maduro’s supporters call the aid a “Trojan horse” that would destabilize the country. Temir Porras Ponceleon, Maduro’s former chief of staff, tells host Marco Werman why he thinks the offer of aid is “a trap.”

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