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more than three set 3 million venezuelans have fled during this economic crisis. many arrived here in neighboring columbia. fox news traveled where thousands of venezuelans cross daily and to columbia to secure medicine, clean water and food. maduro s government is blocking american aid shipments they are claiming his country is not a nation of beggars. the leader said he is org organizing aid caravans into venezuela february 23rd. that gives the military more than a week to decide whether to try to stop them. colombian president ivan duque is insuring those caravans arrive, bret. bret: thanks. let s talk about the situation tonight with colombian president ivan duque, marques, mr. president thank you for your time. it is a great president at that pleasure to be here. bret: how would you describe the meaning and what was the focus? ivan: i think it was a
maduro says venezuelan voters have given him a mandate to lead and claims the united states is trying to create a humanitarian crisis to justify invasion. translator: i believe that the extremist sectors of the white supremacists, the ku klux klan, lead the united states. it s a gang of extremists. it s become refuses to acknowledge dozens of countries that recognized opposition leader juan guaido, his country severe economic crisis, north desperate need of humanitarian aid. his government is blocking aid shipments that the u.s. government is massing in colombia. across a barricaded bridge from venezuela. translator: the united states government has set up with the compliance of the colombian government in order to relate the venezuelans. venezuela is a country that has the capacity to satisfy all the needs of its people. the administration has sanctioned venezuela s primary revenue source, it s state owned oil company. it s trying to divert funds for maduro to interim president
a space the amount of sunk under the mobs so you basically are the united states to lift all sections except. it s not like we look at this and see it as a foreign troops. brought do we know what is in this aid shipment and talk to me a little bit about why does aid is needed so badly there is it is trust in america anything. that we haven t seen before modern history in the face. of perceptions there are no medicines for the sort of sparse people are basically creating a country as you saw it different countries with the best and best exercises his lot of vets whether it s crisis people dying from hunger or absent a case so i said you know i m just dire home and spending the winter with best food trucks i think general purpose is quite stupid but if it is rated for permission to
need a gun and i give a direct order to the armed forces here including allow the necessary humanitarian aid to enter to take care of your family. that is put the focus on the military personnel at the border and their commanders which present will they obey. pedestrian bridges of the border remain open venezuelans can still cross to buy goods they can t get at home but many who have no money to go shopping in neighboring colombia don t understand where the aid shipments are being stopped. i am asking you to please open the border. let the food pass through me. see if like you say you really love venezuela if you really feel something inside of you only if you love your family your children and you should to love them then you need to love us venezuelans as well i am asking you