Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Credit: kremlin.ru via Wikimedia CommonsAid Wars: US-Russia Vie to Ease Venezuelan Political Crisis
As tensions in Venezuela mount ahead of a Saturday showdown over humanitarian aid, both sides are digging in, highlighting how the South American nation's crisis has become the latest fault line in a battle for global influence by the former Cold War adversaries.
February 21, 2019 at 11:05 AM
5 minute read
Call it the aid wars.
The Trump administration is accusing President Nicolas Maduro of starving Venezuelans by blocking tons of American-supplied humanitarian aid stored next door in Colombia.
In Russia, the Kremlin sees the opposition's plan to ram the aid across the border as a reckless pretext for ordering a U.S. military intervention.
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