The Bogus Bolivarian Blockade
On February 6th, 2019 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo posted an image from Venezuela depicting a blockaded Puente Binacional Tienditas (Tienditas Binational Bridge) spanning the border of Colombia and Venezuela; stating that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had ordered the his military to blockade the bridge in order to prevent aid trucks from entering the country. Pompeo implored Maduro to allow the trucks through so that the “starving people” of Venezuela could receive the aforementioned aid.
The bridge in question is located between Cucuta, Colombia and Tachira, Venezuela and though some questioned the authenticity of the image Francisco Toro, the Editor in Chief of the Caracas Chronicles and Global Opinion Columnist for the Washington Post, tweeted other images to show that the original image was, in fact, and authentic depiction of the current state of the bridge in response to criticism from another twitter user.
That would seem to tie up all the loose ends of this story, and give hard evidence that the Maduro government is indeed blockading the Tienditas Bridge to keep aid trucks from reaching those “starving people.” The problem with this however, is that this bridge has never been used.
Google Images show the same images Toro referenced, with the date showing February of 2019. However they also show this image, shown below.
Perhaps this is a different bridge and Google made an error? No such luck, because these are barriers that have been on this bridge for quite some time. An image posted on Voice of America similar to that of Secretary Pompeo and the above image confirms this theory.
More: https://medium.com/@Thegr8tstmanevr/the-bogus-bolivarian-blockade-99ba66fabd04
On February 6th, 2019 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo posted an image from Venezuela depicting a blockaded Puente Binacional Tienditas (Tienditas Binational Bridge) spanning the border of Colombia and Venezuela; stating that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had ordered the his military to blockade the bridge in order to prevent aid trucks from entering the country. Pompeo implored Maduro to allow the trucks through so that the “starving people” of Venezuela could receive the aforementioned aid.
The bridge in question is located between Cucuta, Colombia and Tachira, Venezuela and though some questioned the authenticity of the image Francisco Toro, the Editor in Chief of the Caracas Chronicles and Global Opinion Columnist for the Washington Post, tweeted other images to show that the original image was, in fact, and authentic depiction of the current state of the bridge in response to criticism from another twitter user.
That would seem to tie up all the loose ends of this story, and give hard evidence that the Maduro government is indeed blockading the Tienditas Bridge to keep aid trucks from reaching those “starving people.” The problem with this however, is that this bridge has never been used.
Google Images show the same images Toro referenced, with the date showing February of 2019. However they also show this image, shown below.
Perhaps this is a different bridge and Google made an error? No such luck, because these are barriers that have been on this bridge for quite some time. An image posted on Voice of America similar to that of Secretary Pompeo and the above image confirms this theory.
More: https://medium.com/@Thegr8tstmanevr/the-bogus-bolivarian-blockade-99ba66fabd04