weeks and months ahead. they will understand the venezuelan people have made it days numbered. in terms of additional actions the u.s. and others might take him and he mentioned the possibility of sanctions against the regime and notably he would not rule out military opposition leader juan guiado is a puppet of president trump. today the envoy to the u.s. said the only puppeteer is maduro in the venezuelan people want him gone. this is a venezuela movement led by the people of venezuela under the leadership of juan guiado. they are putting their life at risk as you saw yesterday in order to recover our democracy. what we have seen between democracy and leadership in the world is supporting our movement and we need to see it in that way. the international pressure will continue tomorrow with vice president mike pence to meet
news headquarters here from washington. and gillian turner. leland: nice to be with you at home. if you think about this on the weekend, a lot of news about venezuela. troops loyal continued to block food and medicine from coming into his home country. this despite a starving population, a dying population as well. so desperate that elites to die in 300 others were injured in violent clashes at the border as trucks tried to make their way across. bryan llenas joining us with the details on whether it s gotten in today. midafternoon. juan guiado demanded the united states and 50 other nations recognized as a legitimate interim president of venezuela is now urging the world to keep all options open in ousting president nicholas maduro. the message comes after a day of violent clashes along the border with colombia and brazil.
aid. that is why the entire country has written a. some 60 members of venezuela security forces have effect did hear they defected yesterday leading a border post only to the opposition. he s trying to leave in which maduro lives on the same power. guiado will meet with mike pence and other leaders in colombia monday. meanwhile he spoke yesterday and called on the u.s. and president donald trump to keep his hand off of venezuela. also broke off diplomatic relations with colombia. also learning about an incident yesterday. the venezuela may be threatening to humanitarian aid ship that was sent from puerto rico. the ship is safe, but the aid has yet to be delivered. the population continues to suffer. bryan llenas coming thank you. jillian. gillian: lawmakers at home in the u.s. and abroad speaking out in the wake of these ongoing
the crossfire leaving at least two people died and about 300 others injured yesterday. secretary of state mike pompeo says the u.s. isn t ruling out the use of military force. every option is on the table. we are going to do the things they need to be done to make sure the venezuelan people s voice, that democracy reigns and there s a brighter future for the people of venezuela. transfer the trump administration of 20 other countries now recognize juan guiado is the legitimate president. on the other side, russia, china and iran are in the country whose till support maduro. had won our country to that list which is cuba which had some forces in advisers inside venezuela. some of the reporting says a lot of the violence is directed by not the venezuelan military, but this cuban mercenaries and cuban advisers inside.
under orders, venezuela s national guardsmen walked bridges and fired teargas canisters into crowd who threw rocks will leland: guide humanitarian aid trucks into venezuela. it is to be were killed and some 300 injured. the president has closed the two bridges for at least 48 hours. at one point yesterday, to humanitarian aid trucks to aid trucks were lit on fire by venezuela s national guards and on the bridge. the tracks i just made it to venezuela. they can be seen trying to salvage a much food and medicine from the burning truck says they could. remember, growing number of venezuelans are starving. opposition leader juan guiado said they saw the worst face of the nicholas maduro. you are celebrating the people. they cannot receive humanitarian