\n Opposition leader Juan Guaido, recognized by some 50 countries as Venezuela's interim president, warned the military Sunday that blocking humanitarian aid from entering the country is a \"crime against humanity.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n The warning comes as international aid has taken center stage in a test of wills between Guaido and President Nicolas Maduro in which the military is seen as the pivotal player.\n<\/p>\n
\n Medicine and food sent by the United States has been blocked for three days in Cucuta, Colombia after the Venezuelan military closed a bridge linking the two countries.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"There are people responsible for this and the regime should know it,\" Guaido said after attending Sunday mass with his wife and 20-month-old baby. \"This a crime against humanity, men of the armed forces.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n He likewise warned that the military would be held responsible for the deaths of protesters, and reaffirmed his call for a mass march on Tuesday in memory of the estimated 40 people killed in disturbances since January 21.\n<\/p>\n
\n Maduro has rejected humanitarian aid as a US ploy to intervene in Venezuela, calling the deployment of aid a \"political show\" and blaming US sanctions for the country's widespread shortages of food and medicine.\n<\/p>\n
\n Guaido countered that the regime was refusing to acknowledge a \"crisis that they themselves generated,\" while Venezuelans were working to deal with the humanitarian emergency.\n<\/p>\n
\n Suffering the worst crisis of its modern history, Venezuelans have had to grapple with life-threatening scarcities amid hyperinflation that have rendered salaries and savings worthless.\n<\/p>\n
\n According to the United Nations, some 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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